alternative magazine designs.

I chose this image of Anthony for this magazine idea because it reflects one of my final magazine covers. I basically touched up the image by altering the levels and removing the original background. I then moved Anthony's face to the edge of the page before creating a new layer for the background. I decided to keep the background simple by using his favourite colour. To create the background I used the paint push tool and with my graphics tablet started to paint in the background using various shades of green. I also altered the opacity and size do the brush to give the image a traditional painted look. I think the overall image works well as a background for a magazine spread. However I don’t think it is strong enough for a final magazine spread.

For this magazine spread I took an image of Anthony and scanned it in and developed it in illustrator. I added boxed for columns of text and changed the opacity so that the text can still be read. I also added a border at the bottom and added page numbers. This design is simple and rather bland in the way of colour. So I decided not to choose this for my final design.

For this magazine spread design I scanned in an image of Anthony showing off his plumbing work and developed it by adding in a page of his handwriting onto the image. I then faded the writing out by adding a layer mask and selecting a gradient this faded the text closer to his face and body allowing the text to be read on one side.

The above image lacked in colour to assist this I went back to Photoshop and painted blue into the image I chose blue to represent water which is in fitting with Anthony's profession.

Once I was happy with the image I then added text to this image using illustrator. 

i created two collums of text and changed the font and coulour so that the text can be read.


When I printed this final design off, I noticed the text wasn't easy to read. I then went back to Illistratour and worked on various versions of colour combinations. However, I was unable to come to a satisfactory result by chaning the text colour alone. I then explored the options on having a background to the text. For this I simply created two rectangled boxes selected white and filled them in. All i needed to do from there was alter the ocpacity to allow the background image to be seen. I then re added the text. because I added the background to the collums this enabled me to use black as the font colour.

The rest of the colour alterations have been printed off and handed seperatly.