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- 2. Firstly, I opened a new Photoshop document and thought about what image I was going to use on my magazine promotional advertisement. I took this screenshot from my music video as I liked the effect used to create the colours around her body. I then used the website above to create a collage using the same heart shape I have used on my front cover for continuity.
- 3. After this, I imported the image and duplicated it so I had 3 copies. This was so that I could feature 2 hearts on the cover, I then added a pink border which I created by turning up the saturation and hue on the original border of one of my images but it worked-. I then added the same text ‘flawless’ as shown on my front cover and used a black rectangular shape layered behind to make these colours contrast. I did the same for the artists name at the top.
- 4. This is the same image after I added the crucial release date along with the website and Twitter name I made up. I thought this image looked effective because of the colours used and so much was going on here! However, I thought the back picture was too simplistic and over used for a promotional advert which should be recognisable therefore asking for audience feedback I decided to use an image of the artist’s face.
- 5. I was then back to basics, keeping the borders I like but changing the image. I added a photo I took of my artist wearing a leotard however this photo was taken on an iPhone which impacted the quality when making the image larger so after removing the background of the photo I was not happy with what the image looked like. I chose to use the photo of Sophie standing against a graffiti wall outside as it looks like the type of conventions used in hip hop and rap music. Furthermore, I allowed the layers of text I previously used to be seen and they looked great. For continuity across my products though I changed the artists name to the same signature style font I used on my front cover and duplicated this image twice, changing the colours and size to make this look more interesting.
- 6. I used the same tutorial I found on YouTube in the process of making my front cover in order to airbrush the skin. I have listed the instructions below in 4 easy steps which can be followed. • Duplicate the layer. (Ctrl-J or Cmd-J) • Filter, Blur, Surface Blur • Radius =20px • Threshold= 100px • Add a layer mask • Fill it with black using the paint bucket tool • Paint the areas you want to airbrush with a white soft paintbrush. • Size = 60px • Opacity = 10% BEFORE AFTER
- 7. This is what the photo looks like after I have airbrushed the skin.
- 8. I changed the lip colour using the tutorial I used in the process of making my front cover. This was simple to use and I simply created a new layer; painted over the lips in my selected colour and changed the blending mode to a ‘soft light’ so that it appeared lighter in colour. I duplicated this layer so that the colour was more intense and more of a purple colour.
- 9. I used the website graffiticreator.net in order to make my own graffiti to put onto the wall so that it looked more full of colour. I used two different font styles on the site to produce the words ‘kassie’ and ‘flawless’ both are contrasting images to show verisimilitude of a typical graffiti wall. However, I have stuck to the colour scheme of pinks, purples and blues.
- 10. This graffiti looked too distinct therefore I set the blending mode to ‘overlay’ so that it would look more realistic against the wall. I used the erase tool to remove the graffiti from Sophie’s face so that it appeared to be behind her on the wall.
- 12. I duplicated the ‘kassie’ graffiti layer and as I moved it down it passed over my text which I liked the look of therefore I left this over the text and removed the rest of the image where necessary. The image to the left shows how I have made the graffiti an overlay which I found too much against the wall and so I placed my ‘flawless’ graffiti over the original flawless text. Again, I liked this effect and chose to keep this.