Draft Front Cover 2

Looking at my final front cover, there was a few things that I noticed which I could change. For starters I decided to put a box behind the title of my magazine because I thought that it disappeared into the image too much, and I wanted to make it stand out more. I choice a light colour that would compliment the colour of the title. I then made the price in the corner of the magazine, smaller so that it didn't completely hide the letter E. Another thing I decided to change was the header. Instead of it being 'New Country Magazine . New Songs . New You' to 'New Magazine . New Gossip . New Tunes . New Hits'. I thought this sounded better in my head than the origional header.

Draft Front Cover 1

Draft of Front Cover

When producing the glow round the guitar, I followed the step by step instructions on the YouTube clip that I researched. This took a long time to do so I chose to only two types of glow designs. I like both of these designs. The first glow is quite tight and sophisticated, however I like how freely the second glow is. The colours of the glow will then depend on what colours I decide to do the text on the front cover of my magazine. As I want the theme to be simple and throughout my magazine.

Front Cover Process

First of all i changed the levels of the image so that my model didn't look to discolored from the lights in the location of the image. this also added more tones to her. Next i used the select tool and selected the pupils. By doing this i was able to increase the colour of the models eyes. Just like the tutorial in my research. Then i enhanced the white sections of the eyes so that this empathized the blue in her eyes. After that, i used the heal tool to get rid of any spots and marks on her face so that her face looked soft and flawless.

Next i looked at my models nails. I wanted to change the colour of them to suit my models personality, as they where a dark red before and i thought that if i changed the colour to a pinky colour, this would portray her as being sweet and delicate. To do this i added a solid colour over the top of the image, a colour that i thought was most appropriate. i then changed the layer to overlay so that it was a faint colour over the top of my image. This then allowed me to remove the colour on the areas i didn't want to be pink, with the brush tool. When i had the colour of the pink just on the nails, i zoomed in closer to make sure it was more accurately on the nail bed. Lastly i changed the opacity so that the colour wasn't so dark and harsh.
I then repeated these steps but adjusted the models t-shirt, hair, cheeks and lips.
To the t-shirt i made the shirt more blue so that it matched the models eyes and didn't look so dull. To the models hair, as i like the models original hair colour i thought only to enhance it a little bit so that it looked lush and fresh. I wanted to add colour to my models cheeks so that she looked healthy and had a nice glow, so i choose a light brown colour so that it could create this affect. Adjusting the opacity so that it didn't look too much. Lastly for the lips, i chose a solid red colour to make her lips stand out more. I chose quite a dark red as i wanted her to look more country then if i chose a light red, as she would then look more pop, then country western theme.

 After looking at the previous adjustments, i then decided to make my models eye lashes more prominent. To do this I used the brush tool and changed the thickness to 1, I zoomed very closely in, and hand drew the lashes so that there where long and curved around the eye. I then zoomed out and so that the lashes didn't look to harsh at the ends, I used the brush tool to soften the edges so that they looked more realistic. I then repeated this process with the other eye. I also used the brush tool to make the eyeliner she was wearing, neater and more noticeable.
Because the guitar in my opinion looked dark, and didn't really stand out in the image, I decided to change the levels to make it brighter, and so that the textures would stand out more. To this I used the select tool and selected the main body of the guitar (that I wanted brightening), I then went to curves and adjusted it so that it looked bright but not over the top. at this amount, you can still see the texture and light marks on the guitar, making it still realistic.
For the floor, I did the same process with the guitar but instead I selected the floor and brightened it so that the models shoes would show up more and not blend into the background.

Photographs of Model

These images where taken in a studio set up against a white background. I have taken a range of images in different styles so that when making my front page, contents page and double page spread,  will have muiltiple ideas to choose from. I had my model wear contry western clothes, similar to my research as this would suit my style of music. I then took photographs of her with different props that would go well with my style. Some of these images appear blurred so I wont use these for any of my final work.

Photographs of Location

These images are of a barn at a garden center near to where I live. I thought it was a good idea to take a range of photos within my area, like this, so that it would give me inspiration for my contents page and double page spread.

These images where taken on the outskirts of the town I live in. About a 10 minute drive away I came across a few streets and farm land with a few barns filled with hay stacks. I decided to photograph a range of the barns so that I could choose from a variety for my contents page and double page spread. I also came across what appeared an abandoned home which had an unused, decayed out building at the back of the property. I photographed a few different frames of this so that again I had a range to choose from which suited my style of music.  

Detailed Mock Up

Magazine Masterhead Ideas

Looking  at the style of text I want to use, I have written all my name ideas to see which one I prefer. Overall I prefer the left style of text because it looks more country music style and I this type of text is similar to one of the music magazine covers that I analysed. Also the text style on the right doesn't look as exciting or interesting as the other style of text.

Magazine Text Styles

Looking at different types of text styles, I came across these which I thought would look appropriate for my country music magazine. As country music is quite formal I think that the most appropriate style of text for my magazine would be one of or more than one of these: Mesquite Std, Haettenschweiler, Myriad Pro Cond or Adobe Caslon Pro.