Front Page Construction
Step 1) The first thing I did was decide on a background colour, I did this by selecting solid colour, and choosing the grey that I wanted.
Step 2) Secondly, I decided to add a bit more depth to my background as I felt it was too simple. the tool I used in this step was the brush tool, with this tool I created a kind of spotlight effect by adjusting the size of the brudh and the hardness.
Step 4) My next step was focused on my main image. the tool I used was the magnetic lasso tool to cut around the image and remove the background (this process was done on another photoshop page to avoid confusion with layers). after this i dragged the image onto the page where the magazine constuction was taking place, the edited the brightness and contrast of the image.
Step 3) The next thing I focused on was the title and typography. the tools involved in this stage were the type tool and layer style tool. the type tool was used to type my title, and the layer style tool was used to enhance the appearance of the text. the styles I used were bevel & emboss (to make the font look 3D, I also adjusted the colour of this to a redish pink) inner and drop shadow (to make sure it doent blend in with the background and kind of poops out) and inner glow.
Step 5) the main tools used in this stage was the shape tool in which I used line and rectangle. the line was used to create a page design (the black plus), and the rectangle was used to create the red strip at the bottum of the page, also the blue background of the word 'exclusive'. the type too was used to insert the words 'exclusive' and 'your must hear list of 2015'
Step 6) Below are the tools used for the remaining sections on the construction of my final magazine. all that was left was for me to intesrt the subheadings and other text, for this I used the type tool, and to edit the text (font type, colour, size and alignment).
