Monday, 10 April 2017

FC update 2

This is now my front cover and there have been some slight changes since the last update of this page. Firstly, I have incorporated the colour orange as a main colour onto this page as it has quite a nice effect and works well with the background and other main colours.
 
My model has been given a name as an artist. Also there are a few names of artists down the left hand side. I will be looking to include more in the upcoming future.
 
Also there is sticker sort of effect on the right hand side which has information about some albums inside the magazine. These are the only updates so far but there will be more to come soon.

DPS photo layering

So here we have two versions of the same image which were both shown on the previous post.  As you can probably tell one has a background, and the other does not. This is because the image with now background shall be put on top of the image with a background so that it does have a background, and will look like it is the background of the original image. So as you can see the two images are side by side and nothing has happened yet so this is the process of the layering. As you can see the image with the background has text on top of it, I will have to measure the copy so it is the exact same height and width, as other wise you could clearly see there are two different images. 


So here I have started to move the second photo (with no background) on top of the original (the one with a background). The two images are not yet in line so you can still see that there are two images instead of looking like just the one. However you can see that the original image is behind the text and the second image is in front which will eventually put the text in the middle of both.
After that, the images should be on top of eachother but if not then use the arrows keys to adjust the positioning or even adjust the size of the non background image.
Although this may take a while to do I think the outcome looks very good and is realistic from what I have found back from my research and it work nicely with the image.

front cover update 2

Since my rough cut I started from scratch with the best ideas I had previously and my new ideas that I had. So here is my updated front cover. As you can see it is quite basic as it only consists of my main image and the name of the magazine itself.

There are actually two lots of the same image on this page but one has a background and one doesn't but I will talk more about that in my front cover image layering post. I am a lot happier with my new name and it's look in comparison to the old one which looked a lot like the NME logo. I obviously have a lot to include like more stories and little added touches on each but this is only the first update. There will be plenty more to come for this page.

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Contents first update


Here is my new contents page as I started again after my rough cut. Obviously as you can tell it's slightly bare as there are not any images on there currently but I am in the process of getting the photos for this page. Already you can see the clear differences as I have included the new AMP logo and the entire layout of this page is completely different after I felt it needed a lot of work and that is also what I received in feedback from my peers and teachers about the rough cut.

DPS first update


Here is my first update of my double page spread since restarting after my rough cut. I personally thought my rough cut DPS was quite poor and knew it would need a lot of work. However I feel this currently a massive improvement from the image alone it already looks a lot better than what my rough cut did. From the feedback I had received I knew that I had to retake the images and focus them more on the genre that I am covering which I think I have done in this update. Despite this progress this page is far from complete and I still have a lot of changes and decisions yet to make to this page before I can say my final cut is complete.