What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of

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Photography

Lighting photoshop

Photographs

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Photography

When I created my magazine I had to consider the photography of real life magazines and make sure my photography followed the same convents as that of a real life magazine, through that I did many trials of my photograph with different models to make sure I chose the right picture for my magazine. I had to have the model looking at the camera and also to make my magazine look professional I used a number of different types of shots such as long shots, close-ups and medium close ups

The photos I use for my magazine

Lighting

When creating my magazine on photoshop I had to edit out the backdrop so therefore I made sure that all my pictures had bright lighting so the pictures follow a convention of a real life magazine. I did this by taking the photos on a white background with high-key lighting (bright lighting) shining on my model. This also emphasizes my model against the background making her stand out against and therefore she would stand out on the magazine.

Creative lighting choices:

I wanted my magazine front cover to have a high-key lighting with a white/creamy background so I place my model behind a cream backdrop so I could use her photo for the whole background of my front page.

Creative lighting choices:

For my double page spread I wanted to have sliver background a through this I new I had to cut the background out of the photo I took of my model, using Photoshop, and this meant that when taking the photos the chosen one I had for my double page spread had to extreme high-key lighting so the model was able to be placed on a different back drop and still stand out , to make sure she stood out I also added a shadow effects to the picture through Photoshop.

Photoshop

When I created my magazine I created it on Photoshop c6 on adobe flash player.

Photoshop allowed me to create the magazine the way I wanted to as I was able to edit and airbrush the text on my magazine as well as the pictures.

I learnt many new effect throughout using photo-shop such as: how to cut round a picture, how to use puffs, how to add to a picture to make it look more realistic, how to change the font style and direction the font is moving.

Fonts

One creative technique on Photoshop that I used throughout my magazine was fonts. I used a variety of many different fonts to show make my magazine look more unique and make it stand out from others on the shelf's, these include:

Images

I used many effects on the images on my blog to really make them stand off the page and stand out to the reader including, shadowing and air brushing.

I also had to learn to cut a picture out of its background on Photoshop, this proved to be hard, as I had to pay attention to the detail of my model e.g.: extra strands of hair and had to make sure the fact I cut the picture out wasn’t noticeable.