HOW I CREATED MY MASTHEAD

I was inspired by a font that I liked on DaFont.com but did not want to use the exact same one. I opened Photoshop, as I have experience with using it

whilst making my school magazine. I found a font that I liked on Photoshop labelled ‘Franklin Gothic Demi’ which I then created the letters ‘RPM’ for. I have shown above the three layers I used for inserting the text onto the page

labelled ‘R’ ‘P’ ‘M’. I then moved the letters using the select tool to my desired place to give them more character and make them look a bit different

and interesting.

The next step in the process was to give the background to the letters a colour; I chose navy in order to fit my colour scheme. The navy blue also makes the white letters ‘pop’ and makes them look very clear. I did this by selecting the ‘Rectangular Marquee Tool’ and drawing two boxes around ‘RP’ and then ‘M’ and then used the fill tool to make the background navy. Then I put the layers

labelled ‘R’ ‘P’ ‘M’ shown on the first slide in front of layers 2 and 3 to make it look like it does above.

The final step was to find an image of shattered glass on Google and paste it on to my work in Photoshop. I did this three times in order to cover all blocks of the navy background. Then I decreased the opacity to 46% so the navy background is still visible but the shattered glass effect still is clear. Below I have shown my final masthead.