Front Cover Photo Edits

Original Photo

Edited Photo

As you can see from the original image, the edited copy now holds a different type of shot composition. Showing an example of a medium shot, I felt that this helped clearly show the protagonist is holding an instrument, emphasising the music element of the magazine. I did not have to use things such as the retouch tool here as the artists skin was already extremely clear when taking part in my photo shoot. I cut out the original image, rasterized the layer on Photoshop, then smoothed the edges, leaving me with a perfect cut out of my protagonist. This allowed me to play around with the positioning of the artist more than with the original image. The background of the edited version, is simply a blue screen, which I added a gradient to in order to get the lightness effect. I did this as the grey like screen created by the lighting in the studio behind the artist made the picture look dull and uninteresting, where as the blue brightens it up as well as portraying many happy connotations to the audience. Bright colours are likely to catch the eye of my young target audience, as it grabs their attention when its on the shelves. The vibrant shade sets my magazine aside from the like of Billboard as they tend to use deeper and richer colours on their backgrounds.

Contents Page Photo Edits

Original Image

This is the original image form my first photo shoot. After choosing this picture to feature on my contents page, I didn't think it was necessary to edit it, as it was the right size, composition as well as displaying a good range of colours that I liked.

Original Image 

Edited Image

Firstly, the original version of this image was not the right size to fit with the layout of my contents page. So in order to fix this, I used the crop tool, which allowed me to select the part of the image I wanted to use. I then adjusted the components of the picture, for example the brightness and contrast. This made the image more visible on the page as well as creating a more pop feel.

Original Image

Edited Image

I feel the original version of this image is better than the edited. However, the composed design fits better with my chosen genre of pop. I changed the background of this image as all the shots I took during my two photo-shoots had the same setting colour. To add more variety, I added a frosty blue shade, which ties in with the house theme of my overall magazine.

 Original

Edited

I cut away the background of this image by using the lasso tool in order to show the text on the rest of the page. I made sure I refined and smoothed the edges of the image, to take away the sharpness and give the feature a more realistic effect.    

Double Page Spread Photos Edits

Original

Edited

Edited

The first image is very dark and the protagonist has very little colour in his skin tone. In order to change this I adjusted the components of the picture in Photoshop, I increased the exposure and brightness considerably. As you can see this really emphasises the effect created by the positing of the lighting at the time the image was taken. It gives an almost angelic effect to the final image, possibly connoting the importance or innocence of this individual. I made the colour of the guitar more visible by doing this, the natural wood colour complimented the picture nicely as it breaks up the subtle white and grey tones. I chose to use a male model as this submerged the common conventions of a typical pop magazine, which are generally dominated by young females. I chose to set this shot up in a medium- close up, another factor that breaks the expected conventions as long shots are most consistently used on these pages. Dick Hebdige described youths as "trouble makers", this theory is unmistakeable in my chosen image, as the overall persona of my artist is quite depressed and somewhat moody. I tightened fit of each image, cropping it a bit at a time. I felt by doing this the model is more in the frame rather than looking lost in the construction of the image. Finally, I used the retouch tool to get rid of the imperfections on the protagonists face, making my production look more professional. 





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