Magazine Cover Editing Process

We choose our final idea for our magazine cover, this entails us using 'Little White Lies' as the magazine company, with Gothel on the magazine front cover posing in a very sinister pose,  she will be hooded and the hood will be covering her eyes creating a shadow. We will enhance key features such as, her red lips, pale white skin and black hair, we will also be accentuating the red cape to make it look brighter and highlighted. For the background we will have it off-white with a shadowed square on the outer corners, a bit like a drop shadow. We will also be adding the effect of Andy Warhol and dotted effect seen on instagram. 

The first process was to take the photos of Meliz as Gothel, here are the variations we choose. 

We opted for picture number 4, as it had a more mysterious, sinister, gritty look which is what we wanted to go for and it looked as if it could be on this magazine cover. 

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4 - WINNER!

Photo 5

After choosing our photograph, we then went on to editing. Using the quick selection tool we got rid of the background to see what it would look like and to place on top of the new background. This is what it look like with the potential chosen background.

After establishing this we had to change our canvas size to an A4 size paper, which was easy enough and done properly. As we wanted a dotted effect on top, we went on filter, pixelate to colour halftone where we then chose the degrees we wanted to have the effect. 

After doing this, we decided to experiment with the colour background by disaturating it to black and white. This then allowed us to then use the gradient tool on a new layer and multiplying it and changing the opacity. We also tried to look at it without any effects and the original colours we used.

We decided to stick with original look of the magazine cover as we think that would display the best effects. We also decided to crop the top part off as it looked really bare and we wanted to keep it really simple and not cluttered, so we opted for this option. 

To finish things off, we decided to add the title in a white font to make it look really chic and sophisticated and used the font Trajan Pro and also manipulating the way it would be laid out by incorporating the arc detail. And also we decreased the opacity to 75 points making it look more subtle and mysterious.

We felt that there was something missing in terms of the background so we decided to add some texture and see what was prominent in the two pieces of coursework we have previously made. The main thing we got from it was either the hair or the flower which was not compatible and it made it look immature and tacky, so the next aspect we got was from the location, such as the woods and we added a background picture of ivy on a tree; this is the result of it.