Editing The Magazine Article Print Artefact

Our Original Image

After airbrushing the actresses face and brightening the body of the skeleton using photo shop, I then began to use filters to brighten the image and make it look more attractive. After experimenting with a range of filters I chose to use 'Sun' as it created a nice bright effect that particularly highlighted the leaves in the background.

'Sun' Filter

'Janine' Filter

Adding rating stars.

I tried to begin editing the rating stars onto the photo but soon discovered that due to the colour of the leaves in the background of the image, the text I was layering over the top looked unclear and unprofessional. I ideally wanted to use golden stars, but as they would not show up I experimented with black stars but did not like the way it looked. In order to find a way to overcome it, I looked up other magazine adverts on the internet and found that in many of them, part of the image was blacked out in order to write text that was clear to read.

Example 1

Example 2

Applying to my work

After doing this, I was able to put text over the blacked out area that stood out and looked much better. In order to choose the font I wanted to use in the magazine advert I looked at the logo Kate Nash uses on her website and album covers and discovered that she generally likes her fonts to look childish and handwritten. On the editing software I used, they had a collection of handwritten fonts so I played around with these until I found one that I thought looked good.

Kate Nash's Font

Adding the font to my work

After this, I went back to the internet to find out what else needed to be included in the magazine advert and found out that a price, quotes from magazines and informing the audience of how the CD can be purchased was important. 

Almost finished product

We were happy with how this turned out and therefore showed our teacher and asked for feedback in order to improve. We were told that we needed to leave a natural border around the outside of the image in order to leave room for it to be edited into a magazine without any of the text around the outside being cut out. As we had already saved the image, we were unable to move the text around without having to start from scratch, so in order to overcome this we added a border around the outside to create the same effect.

Finished Magazine Article

The only thing we need to do to complete the magazine article is to add a picture of the finished album cover into the top right corner. We have done the magazine article before we have started the album cover and therefore we can not add this in yet.