Ancillary task editing magazine

Ancillary task editing magazine

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  Selecting final shot Afterdeciding on which photo I felt was best, for reasons such as it describes the type of characters through their body language. I began to edit on Photoshop.
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  Starting editing Since myTV series characters are the main attraction of the cover, I wanted the headlines for them to be the ones which stand out the most. I did this by making them a brighter colour and larger. I needed some other headlines not related to my series, given most magazines do feature pages unrelated to what's on the cover, so decided to choose one about recent events.
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  Experimenting with background I thendecided to experiment, changing the position and size of some headlines, I made the ones related to my series larger and repositioned. I also then decided to get rid of the background, so began to edit it out.
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  Adding further headlines Afterthis I needed to figure out a name for my magazine so decided on 'Online TV Choice'. As well as this I decided to add a graphic element to the name, adding a world logo to replace the O. I also had fully edited out the background and replaced it with a plain brown colour. I also went over the edges of my characters with the brush tool so the outside of them dint have such a red tint. My characters now stood out more. It also adds extra focus onto my headlines, with them being in colour they also are shown to be more eye catching then the bottom left news one. I also decided to add more elements of actual magazines, many offer specific gifts like posters to make customers want them more, so I decided to state that on either the top or bottom of my cover.
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  Lessening the wideuse of colour I started looking again at other magazine covers and saw a common convention was the use of texture backgrounds. I decided this would help my cover look more realistic and less bland so went out and took some photographs of close ups of walls and pathways. After process of elimination I chose the one I felt was best and added it in. I also felt there was too much colour within the texts and so decided to try turn the blue to red.
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  Texture background With thebackground I had experimented with making it both lighter and also darker, I preferred the use of making it darker as it helps make the characters and text pop out, as well as represent the theme of the show.
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  Editing texture background Ialso felt that the the title needed to have its colour changed, as well as the name. I felt like it had to be one word instead. I also need to replace two of the headlines with something not relevant to the series, in most magazine covers they have headlines about recent events. I also have to add in a bar code and potentially the date. I am also considering bringing the 'free poster inside' back up to the top.
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  Further background editing Icontinued to darken the background and replace the headline and it is time to receive audience feedback
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  Audience feedback 1 Followingthe feedback I have received I have been watching some tutorials on YouTube and looking at more magazines online and am going to try edit it to perhaps darken the background, but also part of the characters with a shadow effect. I also must add an issue number and date.
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  Adding in extraeffects After further research into YouTube tutorials I have figured out how to create the shadow effect, I am also thinking of removing the yellow from the poster and have the writing in only three colours being white, red and black. This will also follow magazine conventions which more often show only two to three colours for the writing, some have four but it is rarer. I feel I need to change the position of either the issue number or date.
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  Adding finishing touches Ihave now applied the shadow effect, changed the colour of the headlines and also changed the smaller headlines to TV based topics. I further went with my shadow effect by editing the two headlines at the bottom to fit the theme. I have repositioned the date as well. I feel I should now get more audience feedback.
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  Audience feedback 2 Followingthe latest audience feedback being mainly positive I am going to stick with this new design. I feel that I am going to attempt to darken the characters more and try edit more around them so they don't pop out as much. I am also going to experiment by trying to edit one of my characters more in-front of the other and darken the one behind.
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  Finishing I feel itis nearly completed I just need to do a few finishing touches, I think I may see how the top banner will look more angled and smaller, I like how the circle looks as it follows some conventions as I have seen it in use in others. I am going to stick with having one character in-front and other than that I am feeling very happy with it.
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  My end product.