Reflection
- 2. Front Cover With this front cover I went with a 90’s/80’s retro design. I like the style of this generation and it made my magazine stand out from other modern magazines. The way I made this style was by lowering darks and white balance to create a white overlay/grainy effect on the whole cover. I decided to use colour combinations that I know work together and were popular in the 90’s/80’s, this style came out very good and enhanced the style I was going for. I also tried to match the colours to the image that I was using for the background, this helped the title blend into the picture. The whole front cover looks very good and perfectly sums up the style I was going for with the retro influence. I like the whole style of the magazine and enjoyed making the front cover as it is a new and unique style i have never tried to make. I also like the colours of the magazine, the work really well together and bring the whole thing together
- 3. Front Cover This is the example of me changing the white balance and overall style of the magazine. The first image has very bold colours with the blacks and the image stands out compared the to text, making the text lost in the page. However, after I changed the white balance and contrast of the whole image the cover took shape with the retro style. The changing of the white balance helps the text and the picture compliment each other with the same style
- 4. Front Cover The image I took for my magazine was taken with a very high quality camera that would make the image not fit the aesthetic and style I was aiming to achieve. I used the camera raw filter to change the Exposure, Contrast, Whites and Clarity to make the image have the retro feel and style to it. This editing of the photo was a major part of creating this whole aesthetic of the magazine.
- 5. Double Page Spread This was the end result of my double page spread ideas. The first thing I did was look at my experiments and see what inspiration I could get. I found a smoke football screensaver I made as a part of those. I decided to have the same concept but the smoke going across the whole screen with Lewis Hamilton coming out it. I really like the whole concept of this page as the smoke tint with Lewis’ helmet and suit compliments each other really well and brings a whole mood to the page. I really like the sharpness of the colours on the image of Lewis, it brings a lot of depth to the page and makes it look high quality. Tomorrow I will continue making amendments to the double page spread and I will go onto make another one for my fanzine.
- 6. Double Page Spread The first thing I did to make this double page spread was to import a smoke screen background effect, this one I found was perfect for what atmosphere I wanted to create. The next thing I did, was changing the colour balance of the background to make a dark purple tint to match Lewis Hamilton’s helmet. After i did this I imported a picture of Lewis that would be suitable to have coming out the smoke. I used the lasso tool to cut him out, after this I clipped him to the background so he had the purple tint to him. This helped blend him into the background and the overall style of the background. After I had Lewis cut out and clipped into the background I had to blend him into the background. I did this by creating a clipping mask on the image then using the White colour and the brush too I could slowly blend the smoke into the image. I repeated this until the flat part of the image was gone and the effect of him coming out of the image was complete. After I had my whole background sorted I placed a rectangle on the other side of the page but decided to lower the opacity of the rectangle to blend it into the background and help it fit within the whole page as it without the opacity changed It stood out too much and made the page look messy.
- 7. Second Double Page Spread With this double page spread I went with a fact file type of design. The image is a extreme close up and is pointing in a way that guides your eyes towards the information about the driver. The blue tint and Williams logo in the background gives the page a nice mood and nice style to it. To create this grainy effect on the page i imported a .png and lowered the opacity so the page had a nice feel to it. I also added a drop shadow to the box that featured the text to make the information stand out and pop off the page, it also adds extra depth to the page and gives it a good structure. Overall I really like the style of this page as it has minimal information but that’s enough to create a nice structure and mood to the page, the different shades of the blues and white work really well together to make a really good double page spread
- 8. Third Double Page Spread This double page spread took the same style as the previous one. However, this one took a different colour scheme than the previous one as I want all the colours to match the ones of the liveries of the cars. This colour scheme was used all around the double page spread including the text. I used the same techniques as the previous double page spread as I enjoyed the style of that one. I used various photoshop techniques such as the Camera Raw Filter, Hue and Saturation editing and the use of the solid colour feature.
- 9. Fourth Double Page spread With this double page spread I wanted to create a artistic scatter piece for the Prema F2 driver. First thing i did was find an appropriate picture to cut out with the polygonal lasso tool. After I had my image cut out I duplicated it to keep the original image. With the duplicated image I liquified that, so it stretched the colours across the page. After I had completed this I masked the stretched image and coloured over it with the black colour so it got rid of the whole stretched image, leaving the original. I then chose a scatter brush and chose the white colour to slowly reveal the colour from the liquified image. This effect look really good but to make it even more effective I created a clipping mask over the duplicated image and chose the white colour so it would get rid of the colour from the normal image with the same design as I was using the same brush. After I finished this I added factual information in a translucent box to the left of the image. Overall think this design came out perfect and looks quality
- 10. Fifth Double Page Spread With this double page I went with the same fact file style that i did for Daniel Riccardo and George Russell. These were simple to make and provided information. The first thing I did for this page was to find an appropriate image. Once I had found this I found the same grainy image that I needed to create the effect over the page. I did this by laying the grainy picture over the page then lowering to opacity so it created that effect over the page. After this I created a colour fill mask of the same colour of the car, then lowered the opacity of that to leave the theme of the page on the car. Next I imported a picture of the McLaren Formula One Team logo to place in the background. I added drop shadow and lowered the opacity of that to leave the focus on the formula one car. After this had all been done I created a text box with the secondary colours of the car and made the text the orange main colour of the car to have the same theme throughout the page. I added drop shadow to that then the page was finished.
- 11. Sixth Double Page Spread For this double page spread I wanted to try and make a overlapping neon double colour exposure. The first thing I did was to find two images of drivers with their helmets on as I thought that that would be the easiest to make the colours work. I found out that the Max Verstappen image I chose wasn’t going to work with the Lando Norris Image I chose so I adapted to using a Sergio Perez image I found instead and this worked better. After I found the images I went into the blending options of each image and tuned off two of the Red, Green and Blue options so each image had their own separate colour that would create a separate colour when overlapped. After I had my images sorted I started on the text. I placed the text underneath the images so the colours would mix between that. After this I added drop shadow to the Championship standings text to create this same effect with the text. Overall this came out really good and was very simple to make.