How I edited my Magazine Cover

1 - This is the photograph I chose to use for my magazine cover. The composition is to the left, letting her hair tumble across her shoulder giving her a nice profile. This is the photograph before I did any editing to it.

2- This is the photograph when I used spot healing tool to clear up blemishes and used a Gaussian blur tool to smooth out the skin. Then I changed the colour saturation of the photography so that the colour was much more rich and bright. After this using the clone tool I used the dark bluish black colour of the backing sheet to replace all of the background giving the final product a clean background/

3- This is the photograph after I used a blue hue to get a desired pinkish-amber colour to the eyes of my model. The effect of the use of the huge however changed all of the picture's colour giving my model blue skin, purple hair and orange clothes.

4- This is the photograph after I opened a new layer of the step 2 and placed it over the photograph is step 3 before desaturated the photo so that the colour in the photograph was quite faint leaving a hint of colour for the hair, skin and lips. With this layer on top I then used the eraser tool to get rid of this layers eyes so that step 3's amber eye colour would replace it, giving my model and eerie look about her.

5- In this photography I have added my chosen text which is Old English Text MT, using it for my Magazine's title 'Status' as well as for the words 'The Sinner Cover Special' to create a little bit of uniformity. I chose this text because it was quite aesthetically pleasing for my film genre as its quite old fashioned and Gothic. However the words 'Behind the scenes' is in the font Rockwell Condensed. Making it stand out from the scriptic text. I also added a tagline the top right of the magazine in purple using the text Orator Std. The tagline is in a different font also as to be different from the rest of the magazine but in the colour purple to stay with the colour scheme. All text here was razturized and given a drop shadow to make it stand out against the white.

6-  In this photograph I have added more text using the font Rockwell Condensed promising Exclusive interviews with my main actress and information on the actors that should be watched this year. I coloured the font in red, purple and white so that the text stands out and is legible.










7- This is the finished) also I added a barcode to give the magazine more authenticity. I also made the shadow behind the magazine's title bigger to make it stand out more then the rest of the text.