Year Book Spread

Magazine Cover

Photoshop Practice

Resolution: 150 black & white

Resolution: 72 vertical

Resolution: 300 horizontal

Photoshop Introduction

4. Crop Tool- Used to cut off portions of your photo

5. Lasso Tool- Used to select specific part of your photo

6. Text Tool- Used to add text to your photo

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?

Command-Z (Mac) or CTRL-Z (PC) 

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?

You have to pull up the history palette. You find it by going to Window --> History menu.

9. How do you rotate an image?

You go to the image menu and then select "Image rotation" 

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

You can cancel you crop by using the esc key.

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? HINT: it involves ratios.

You're telling photoshop what dimensions the image should result in after you crop it. After locking in the dimensions it forces the crop box into a certain ratio.

12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?

150-200 ppi

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

2250 or more ppi

Best Portrait

My Favorite Cover

"This month's cover girl is the gorgeous Jennifer Lawrence. The Hunger Games star talks British men, kissing co-stars and body confidence!"

Jennifer Lawrence's April 2012 cover for Glamour magazine is my personal favorite. The magazine's masthead isn't fully revealed but you are still able to tell what it is. The cover lines are bold and visible. The black background of the magazine makes the fonts and main image very clear and doesn't have anything distracting the eye. The left side of her body is lighter than the right which shows a good lighting contrast. What I find really cool about this cover is that her cover line located to the right of her says "Talks, swears and eats! - like a normal person." The magazine as well as many others are admiring her because even with fame she acts as if she doesn't have it. She's wearing a very fitting body suit showing off all her curves. This to me shows that you don't have to have a certain image for people to accept you. She is a completely humble celebrity who doesn't care about what people think about her, she is confident with her body and who she is. She is a powerful and inspirational person to many and that's the message I received when I saw this cover. 

Magazine Essential Parts

PARTS OF MAGAZINE 

Masthead (Logo) : Name of the magazine 

Dateline: Publication date along with the price

Main Image: The attention grabber on the cover page, usually will be of a model or celebrity

Model Credit: Usually on contents page. Describes model and photographer.

Coverlines: Extra topic titles/ previews on the cover page that aren't too distracting to the main image

Main Cover line: The main topic of the magazine, positioned and enlarged to make very noticeable

Left Third: Used for advertisements, sales in shops, etc. Masthead is very important here. 

Bar code: bar code used by retailers 

Selling line: Description of the magazines marketing point.