Photoshop Editing Skills Development

Photoshop Editing Skills

Photograph process

Below is some of the thought process, trial and experimentation, as well as a selection of some of the most successful photos taken of my model for Pulse Magazine's contents page, Cover Page and Double Page Spread. Not all of the photos will be used, furthermore none of the photos present have undergone any form of editing.

Pulse Magazine Articles

'Pulse' magazine articles

Features

This section deals with the featured articles.

John Davies back again

Jack Black Black Jack

'Black Veil Brides' unveil their secrets

Grohvling to Grohl

Ho Ho Hope for humanity

Tours and T's for all

Rising through the ranks
Everyone's favourite Frisbeee goes from a staggering fall to a standing ovation.

Props for the props (fashion advice from a celeb)

Metal goes on, but does 'moshing' follow?

Rockbottom to Rockstar (guide for music)

There will be Blood on the Dance floor

Metal made in Japan

New year's resolutions

Regulars

This section deals with the regular articles.

Fan-works (fan artwork)

Dearest Fans (fan letters and conversations)

Freebies, you say?

Our Artist of the Month

Studio Crash (invading other bands' studios)

Choice Cuts (clips)

Gigs and Giggles

Employee of the month!

Guppy Guitars

Pulse Magazine Flatplans

Below are the flatplans for the pages to be featured in my music magazine completed through Adobe InDesign, embedded through Scribd.

Flat Plans

Interview for Pulse magazine main article

This is the plan for the interview I wish to carry out with the artist I have chosen to feature in my magazine. It will reveal information associated with the model's interesting story, as well as her plans for the future. I aim to cover: Her current health; the reason for her tragedy; her plans for the moment; her plans for the future; her thoughts on current metal news; fan questions; other miscellaneous enquiries and small doses of humour.

Intro
This will just be a short greeting and a little small talk to break into the interview. Few fan questions or rumours may be used to begin the topic.

Interview
These questions will be the solid points to cover, as well as places of refuge for when the conversation begins to stray from the topic.

1. What exactly happened?

2. How and where did this happen?

3. So, what exactly are you doing at the moment?

4. I've been told that you hated the sight of your guitar for a short time.

5. Here at Pulse, we know that the fans are buzzing! How excited are you?

6. Could you give us a little taste of what you'll be pulling out on the 20th?

7. What do you have planned for the future?

(8.) Well, us lot at Pulse wish you the best of luck and hope it all goes well this time round! Thanks, Frisbeee.

(These questions are guidelines as to how I will carry out the interview. The interview covers every aspect of the story, as well as finishing on a high note and getting the info that the audience would likely want to see, such as upcoming gigs and dates of importance. Obviously, the questions or decisions I make can and will likely change due to what the responses are, but these are the solid outlines and points for the interview).

'Pulse' title concepts - Adobe Flash Professional CS6

First, I set up 2 masking layers using the new layer button, and right clicked the layers to transform them into masking layers. I then placed one under the other to bind them together, and create the ability to have a 'revealing' layer and a 'background' layer.

After this, I created my title using the line tool and fill tool, as well as as double clicking the outline afterwards to select it all for removal, leaving behind an unoutlined title. After ensuring the title was 'broken apart' and not in a group or converted to a symbol, I locked the layer (Green was chosen due to it's visibility, plus colour won't matter as the shape and fill are the only important objects here).

I then imported an image as the backdrop for the text on the layer below the text's layer. After positioning, the only thing left to do was lock both layers, allowing for the top layer to reveal the bottom layer's contents where there was colour.

I then experimented with this technique with many different patterns and backgrounds, each possessing some link to the genre and tone I aim to create. This can also be done with brush strokes, as demonstrated on the right of the below image. I believe this to be an easy and straight forward way to create detailed text with ease, and may carry one of the designs on to my magazine.

(The backgrounds used here were downloaded from www.Google.com, with the exception of the centre-left texture, which I made quickly using Photoshop, and have only been used for planning and testing purposes and will not be used or incorporated into my work).

The images below, however, were taken and created by myself, though I believe that only the top few (so far) are appropriate for use.

Press Release Analysis

Below is the analysis for the Press Release for my magazine 'Pulse'.