MAIN TASK 1: Contents Page Development

For my contents page I had gone through a number of processes and developments in order to create my final piece. Screenshots below are the different experiments of my contents page. This altered from images used, sizes, layout of information to colour arrange. However, the screenshots taken was after the piece had been created therefore, on the right side of the images, section "layers" has everything there already. And so I had to unclip those so that it gets removed from the page in order for me to show the different steps.

I first started off by keeping a plain white background and did not want to use the brick wall background or any colours in general, as this is how most magazines had the contents page. But also because I felt it made everything just stand out even more.

I then chose an image, first edited an image of the first model of my brother, but then thought it would be too repetitive and decided to change the image to the other model. However, as the other two style of images I had taken was of different genres, one as a rock theme and the other as a pop look. 

Therefore I tried out both and edited the pop look in order for it to look less "girly". I used a tool which removed the colour of the pink dress and I made it grey, this I thought went well with the look and not the pink. Unfortunately there was no way of removing the floral headband and so I had to change the colour as well to grey.

In order to change the colour I had selected the "colour replacement tool", to then use this tool I needed to set the foreground colour to the colour I want the clothing to be. Below on the left side on the toolbar there is two squares overlapping ne s black and the other is white. 

I then had to click on the top sqaure and a new window will open. This allowed me to choose a colour, next at the top of the screen there are options saying "Mode, Limts and Tolerance" and also a brush otpion.

The mode should be set to colour, limit to contiguous and olernace can be altered this allowed me to paint the edges of the area needed to change colour and not drag out on to the rest of the image.

And so next I had started to paint over the area needing to be changed. But it did not create as much of a change I had hoped it would and so therefore, I had used a different way to alter the colour of the outfit the model was wearing.

I had tried the "Selective colour" method, I went to "Layer" - "New Adjustment Layer" -  "Selective Colour". A box then popped up and I had to just press "ok" because the outfit was changed to a "greyish" colour, I had to select the colour selection on blacks.

Then I used the sliders to change the greys and blacks on the image but as the image has other sections similar to these colours, therefore it had altered those as well. In order to avoid this I would have to use the "Magnetic Lasso Tool" to use this I had to click a point on the edge of the outfit and then move the mouse around the rest of the outfit back to the first point made.

I can then make the same adjustments but only this time the outfit would change and not other black or grey sections of the image. However I wanted to intensify the whole image and so the model's eyebrows and sections of the hair such as the highlighted strands had been "darkened" to create a more dramatic effect.

After cropping the image and erasing around the model in order to get rid of the background. This was quite difficult as the model has long hair, therefore it was very difficult to avoid erasing her strands of hair.

I then started to add text on the page by first starting off with the title, at first I had put "Contents Page" but after realised that it should be "Contents" only. I had kept the font style the same as the title on the cover as I did not want to use a variety of fonts.

I had placed the title to the slight right side as this is where I saw most magazines within this genre or similar to the style I am doing had placed their titles. And so I thought the rest of the text such as the contents would also be placed on the right side.

The colours used are all the same as the cover as I wanted a colour theme, this creates a more professional look rather than having random colours and different styled fonts.

I had to then come up with information that I would like the magazine to include by keeping in mind that the artists mentioned on the cover that would be featured should be included within the contents. And so I took some ideas from other magazines in order to help me know what to put about each artist or band.

I then thought that the page number should be in a different colour as this again is what most magazines had, this would increase interest as well as be more eye catching for the audience as they could directly know which pages include "interesting" information.

And so because I did not have an purple yet on the page, I had changed the numbers to the same purple as the one used on the cover. This again added to the colour theme