Progress So Far (Music Magazine Double Page Spread) - 15/04/2011

The last component I need to create for my music magazine is the double page spread on my fictional band 'The Blitz'. Firstly, I needed to edit the images that were going to appear on this spread. Before I modified my first image, it looked like this:

But afterwards, it looked like this:

I first used the 'Burn Tool' around Charlotte Westall's (blonde girl on the left) eyes to give her an eyeliner effect to match that of Emily Oakes', and further used the 'Sharpen Tool' on both of their eyes to make them stand out more from the rest of their faces. I then used the 'Ploygonal Lasso Tool' and cut around the top of the reddy-brown bush branches and Emily's head so that I could later bring her head in front of the "THE BLITZ ARE BACK" title. To create this title, I went on http://www.dafont.com/ and downloaded this text and writing my title into it. I placed it on top of the image, and rotated it accordingly. Lastly, I adjusted the placement of the photoshop layers to bring Emily's head in front of the title.

My second image looked like this before I modified it:

And after half an hour, it looked like this:

I first used the 'Crop Tool' to crop the image down to this medium shot size. Next, I used the 'Burn Tool' around Charlotte's eyes to give them an eyeliner effect, and the 'Sharpen Tool' to make her eyes contrast against the rest of the image. This image was darker in comparison to my first image, so I modified the 'Brightness/Contrast' to make it match in brightness to my first image.

My last image looked like this before I edited it:

But afterwards, it looked like this:



I used the 'Crop Tool' again to make the image smaller, and then used the 'Sharpen Tool' on her eyes to make them contrast more against the rest of her face. But apart from that, I didn't edit anything else.