Screenshots of new magazine cover- improvements based on audience feedback

Screenshots of magazine cover- improvements based on audience feedback

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The editing process that I went through for my magazine cover is as follows:

The film strip and images:

· Firstly I dragged the photo of Frances, Jon and Peter further to the right, and made it smaller.

· I placed a black rectangle down the left-hand side, and moved the film strip across to the same side.

· I made sure that the images of the three female celebrities looked like they were part of the film strip: it can be seen through the image of Rachel McAdams on my presentation above that the edges of the photo were defined, but once I used the blur tool then the image did not look as though it was separate from the film strip.

The text:

· I went onto dafont.com and chose new text from the Sans Serif section, as the style of the text followed the conventions of other film magazines. When receiving feedback from one of my Media Studies teachers she said that all of the fonts on the front cover were very similar, so when choosing new text I looked through the many pages on dafont.com and selected various styles.

· I typed the text into the box on dafont.com and print screened it. When there was a lot of text I had to type it in and print screen it separately and then place it one beneath the other on my magazine cover. One long line of text would not have worked.

· I then copied and pasted it onto Paint, selected the text, cut it and re-pasted it so that the rest of the print screened page was no longer there. If I needed to I chose 'invert' so that there was white text on a black background, and so that it was readable when I put it onto my magazine cover.

· As I went through this process I saved the text from Paint as a JPEG file, and then dragged it onto Photoshop.

· From here I used the magic wand tool so that there was just the text and no background. I deleted the original text and maneuvered the new text into its place.

· I used the same techniques for all of the text I obtained from dafont.com, but I only inverted the text if I needed it to be white and not black.

· I also made sure to name the layers so that I could find all of the text I had imported to Photoshop.

I feel that through making these changes my magazine follows the connotations of other film magazines, and that it is of a much higher standard.