Process of creating contents page
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This document outlines the steps taken to create a contents page for a magazine in Photoshop. It describes importing images, resizing them, removing backgrounds using various tools, adding text and formatting features, and filtering photos to match the magazine's color scheme. The result is a contents page with positioned and rendered images, social media icons, credits, and text formatted with different fonts and colors to mimic a real magazine contents page.
Process of creating contents page
- 2. New As you can see, there have been slight changes made to my contents page such as the page numbers. Most magazines have larger gaps and higher upper limit of pages due to advertisements. Applying this knowledge to my magazine shows my understanding of this feature (page numbers).
- 3. Steps Firstly, I chose an image particularly a front cover of a magazine from Google. This will serve as a base that has the correct size of a magazine front cover. Drag the image to Photoshop as well as the photo I have taken (2 separate files opened in Photoshop). Then, I will drag the photo I have taken to the other image
- 4. Steps Originally, the image will be massively large when transferred to the other file. Therefore, in selection of the first image, I clicked on to from the menu bar. A display box has appeared then I set the image settings to these particular sizes. So when I adjust the image after being transferred, it will be much easier. (Contents Page was taken with a DSLR camera unlike my Front Cover)
- 5. Image Size Adjusted Non-adjusted Image Evidently, the second image is time-consuming in terms of resizing using transform controls as the tip of her hair is visible. On the other hand, the first image only takes a few seconds of adjusting my model’s face.
- 6. To render the image, click on the brush tool. Then, set the tool size to 46 or larger in deleting wide background spaces. The mode should also be set to ‘Clear’ as its specific function is for removing the background only. To make the edges smooth and precise, I changed the tool size to a lower number and zoom in to particular areas of my model’s face. After that, I use the rectangle tool which is available on the side menu bar (can be changed when right- clicking on the line tool). The image provided will pop up after right-clicking. I also changed the fill to #000000 (black) … …then create a dark rectangle by dragging the cursor from the upper left corner of the file. This will serve as the background.
- 7. Here is the result after rendering the original image. I positioned the rendered image to the lower right corner of the file due to texts (‘contents’) that will be added on the near upper left side. The overlap should also be considered as it should not happen, for the purpose of contents page is to inform therefore people would not want complicated designs. They want to focus more on reading the texts which will be provided
- 8. Since the original photo does not possess any colour scheme of EDM Magazine, I decided to add filters by clicking on to then experimented different types of colour balances and correctors to achieve the scheme which is very satisfying to my liking. O
- 9. In order to add texts and its miscellaneous features such as colour, font styles, click on the horizontal type tool Moreover, you can edit the text by highlighting it then select different features from the toolbar. .png files can offer images with transparent background instead of white, black or other colours. I have searched for rendered icons from Google rather than consume time by rendering it. These are indicators where the audience can easily find ‘Shanaia’ in social medias. Font styles Font size Font colour Specific colours, mostly neon were used in my contents page due to the colour scheme which I am following. It is also the same very reason for why I edited or filtered Shanaia’s photo. Credits are also essential in a contents page as it shows gratitude to the photographer. Paginations should have a min. of about 60 pages as a ‘real’ magazine contains lots of advertisement.
- 10. FONT: Letter Gothic Std Medium COLOUR: FONT: Lithos Pro Regular COLOUR: FONT: Haettenschweiler Regular COLOUR: FONT: - Microsoft Tai Le Bold - Mangal Regular - Microsoft PhagsPa Regular COLOUR: AND #FFFF FONT: Lithos Pro Regular COLOUR: #FFF FONT: Minion Pro Italic COLOUR: There have been slight changes regarding the texts. Skrillex has been changed to Skylette in the updated version of my contents page. Moreover, a text is missing in this example: EDM FONT: Minion Pro Bold Cond and COLOUR: