Using Photoshop - Lesson 4 - 6/10/08

Todays aim was to start making our magazine front cover, which is why we spent this lesson in the Mac room, as the pictures were uploaded, so we had a chance to decide on what pictures we wanted to use, and then start editing and forming our front cover. I must say, i found this lesson fun and also stressful as this was were the hard work started. As we had two weeks to finish our magazine, so every little time was essential. At the beginning of the lesson, we were shown how to open up and use photoshop and also how to open an A4 sheet on photoshop, as we were printing our magazine on an A4 sheet. Although we were all individually making our own magazine front cover, we had to sit in our groups, so that we could communicate easily and efficiently as certain things on our front cover had to be the same such as, the logo, the price, front size and type of front etc. As soon as instructions were given, we then started to put all the planning we did from privious lessons into action. I believe this is when the work officially started. We then began to fiddle around with our pictures, trying to see what looks good (editing, putting articicial backgrounds, cutting and pasting etc). As i planned how i wanted my magazine layout to be, i didnt need to cut and edit as much as others, as i decided to use the background of some pictures, as it fitted my theme of which i planned my magazine front cover to have. In addition to the pictures i had taken, i also went onto the internet, looking at pictures of famous Hip-Hop artists (as everyone was entitled to use one image from the internet), which fitted the type of genre my magazine was aiming for. I eventually decided to take an image of Ti (and Hip-Hop artist) to place on my magazine, as my front cover could not just contain pictures of one sex/gender, it had to contain pictures of both sex, as it was targeted at both males and females. The only main trouble i had was having to place the heading behind the picture. I was unable to do this as i had never done it before therefore i did not no how to do it. It was at this point i asked for Mary's help and assistence, so that she could show and guide me on how to solve my problem.