What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Before taking on this project, I didn't know anything about Photoshop. It has been very useful to make this magazine to develop my skills and learn what kinds of things are put into creating a magazine. I found it very useful to do the preliminary task to find out what sorts of tools I would need and have a go at practising with them before coming to my final work.
Techniques used:
Quick selection tool - after selecting an object with the magnetic lasso tool to make sure the entire image is selected.
Clone Stamp tool - to remove reflections in the trombone.
Eraser tool, but particularly the soft eraser - to make the edges of the images softer and more appealing.
Text tool - for all of the text included, as well as the ones in the DPS that have been imported from Photoshop.
Line/rectangle/ellipse tool - to create shapes such as the boxes on the contents page or the plug on the front cover.
Transform – scale/rotation - to make images fit and rotate them around to give them an “off-angle” effect, e.g. the image of me on the contents page.
Layer style – stroke, gradient overlay and some colour overlay - to give the text a border around it, a fill effect and change the colour of the boxes on the contents page respectively.
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