Thomas Allison 0051
My magazine production kicked off by gathering my chosen photos from pre-production and ideas and putting them on my memory stick ready to use PhotoShop at college. It was at this stage that I realised that the photoshop practice lessons paid off (http://thomasallison0051.blogspot.com/2009/11/photoshop-practice-for-magazine-covers.html). This saved me alot of time as I am now already familiar with the PhotoShop program so I could began to put my ideas together.
I uploaded my photos and fonts and other elements such as the barcode and began to produce my constructed magazine cover. Firstly I had to set the page requirements to the A4 sizes so the picture would fit a proper sized magazine cover without getting pixilated if i had to enlarge it from a smaller page.
The next stage was to upload my background (dark clouds) and set it as my first layer so it is my base for my work so i could start adding my other elements of my diegesis. The magic wand tool was the most usful tool for me when cutting my photos out to stick on my website. However i did encounter a problem when trying to cut out my protagonists hair and so i had to use the manual whilst zoomed in to deal with this.
That was the only problem with photoshop that I had due to the practice I have had. However PhotoShop is a complex program with all the different tools and layers for it was a long process of approximatly 3 lessons. However the final piece looks very successful and protrays EMPIRE magazines professional due to my constructed diegesis.
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