Improvements
- 2. Although I was pleased with my original magazine, I felt there was cause for editing the front page and the contents page, because it didn’t meet the same quality as my double page spread. So I have altered the two pages in order to create a better final project. Rather than just edit the picture via a simple publication, I used Photoshop to get a quality photograph for my central photograph. I also changed the layout and pictures of my contexts page as I felt it looked amateur and simplistic.
- 3. I wanted to change my magazine covers central image from the black and white to make it less heavy, and I also felt the red lips cheapened image, making it vulgar. I picked a different image of my model and edited the picture in Photoshop. The new image is more in sync with the audience of my demographic, the model looks more natural than the heavily contrasted black and white image, and she is more centralised. The theme I was going for was a 1970’s appeal that the rest of my magazine conforms with. The kind of editing I wanted to achieve is that which would appear on site ‘Instragram’ was is typically used by the Indie Demographic because they can independently share their quirky photography which they tend to edit in a particular style. I’m pleased with the outcome of the picture, the way I manipulated colour, contrast, colour-curve, and exposure of the image means the outcome looks vintage (Appealing to my 1970s theme), yet has the modern advantage of a crisper image due to digital advancements in photograph editing software.
- 4. I edited the exposure, Offset and Gamma correction. The exposure gave a harsh yellow light to the entire photograph, giving the artificial lighting appeal of the 1970’s theme I was going for. The image was already edited simply as ‘Sepia’, so this meant editing the overall image was enhancing the already sepia image. What I like about the image is how through Photoshop ‘s Offset, I could focus on specific parts of the image, which is how I achieved the models rosy lips, also a component of 70’s style.
- 5. I edited font colours to conform with my 1970’s vintage theme. I made the colours more pastel, which was more common in the 70’s era. I also removed the borders of the other images, because I thought they looked unprofessional and amateur. I also changed the font of my caption, to make it bolder and stand out against the other text which is all the same font. I also made it horizontal rather than vertical so it didn’t obscure and monopolise the main image. Because of the new editing of my main picture, and the new colour format, I made my magazine an ‘Autumn’ issue, because of the rich reds and oranges conforming with idealistic colours of autumn. What I liked about my mock up was the simple colour scheme, I only used one colour for the font. I have recreated this to make my magazine more organized, the only exception is the main cover line quotation, which I had to use an alternate colour to allow the quote to be visible, as it faded into the colours of the central picture.
- 6. I changed the font of the features, to match the font on the front cover, to make my magazine consistent. I also did this with the ‘Note from the editor’ heading to make the font smaller, which allowed for me to have bigger images. I changed the images to be vertical rather than vertically obscured to fill the page in a better way, and also to allow better viewing of the images. I kept the picture of ‘Ariella’ the biggest because she is the cover story, but the two feature artists are still large enough to be shown clearly.