photo editing (spread pages) 2/17

           For the spread pages, I used mainly InDesign because it was easy to see a layout of the full magazine. It also made it easy to insert pictures from Photoshop and add text or create columns, which was needed when creating the chart of the 'future tour dates' on the feature spread pages. 
         

      




      The way the 'Vibe' magazine is set up is basically a white background with multiple full body shot pictures of the same subject from the cover page.
      

    Through photoshop I was able to crop the model out of the background so I could place her in another page and add more cropped images. This app was efficient when creating my spread pages because it was easy to use the tools plus they were pretty self-explanatory. 

          Although cropping each picture took time and patience, the tools in Photoshop made it a little easier to manage. The brush would have specific sizes that you could adjust to better crop your image. After cropping the picture, you could even adjust the smoothness of the edges to make the cropping look more natural. 


           I had to make a couple of pictures black and white to follow the codes and conventions of the 'Vibe' magazine. Turning the images to black and white was probably the easiest part and I like how Photoshop allows you to adjust the whiteness and darkness of the pictures based on the colors of the image, which not a lot of apps provide. For instance, you could lower the blue tones to make them either darker or lighter. 

          For the lines found behind the model I used the line tool on InDesign. Although, I did add the three lines I made them in different sizes to add a personal touch. The writing was placed on the bottom half of the page in a serif font just like the 'Vibe' magazine. Editing was a fundamental part in the creation of this magazine and it allowed me to make some unique changes to my magazine. 

photo editing (cover) 2/15

Photo editing for cover:

     For the editing of my pictures I used the Adobe Photoshop and Light-room apps as well as InDesign. All of these apps were provided by my school tablet and they were all new to me. Therefore, it was difficult to learn how to work with them at first but after using them throughout the year, they became easier to manage.
     Before beginning the editing process, I first picked out my favorite pictures from the shoot or the ones that were most fitted for my magazine. These were the final pictures I exported from my camera to my computer in the photoshop app.

   


        I ended up choosing the middle one since it's a perfect mid shot. I mainly chose it because I like the model's facial, it shows that she's confident and strong, which is a big focus on this magazine.
        After I chose the picture I began fixing small blemishes on the skin, using the Photoshop app. I had to do this process only for the cover image since it was a mid-body shot and the face of the model was closer. However for the features spread I didn't have to worry about this because the pictures were smaller.

       Photoshop was also my favorite app to use when editing the main cover in general. I added the masthead, anchors and pretty much all the writing through this app.

         To achieve the perfect font for the masthead, I had to download an app called datfont.com. Through this mobile app, I would download any cool font to my phone and do a whole process to send it to my email. From my there, I would export it to the Photoshop app, where I would crop and paste the picture of the text.



I had to go through a similar process to add the picture of the bar code. I took a screenshot of a bar code I found in google and I cropped it in the Photoshop app and placed it in the bottom left corner of the magazine to follow the codes and conventions of 'Vibe' magazine.

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