Post-production diary (Canon)

 EDITING THE FRONT COVER: USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

First of all, I inserted the base image of the castle which I had taken with my camera

Then I added some red blocks which the text will go on later

Here I've made the red darker in certain parts which will distinguish the different lines of text later.

i did this by layering black over the top of the red blacks and lowering the opacity to 10% 

Now I've added the secondary pictures for the cover which i also took.

Next I have added some outlines to the pictures so they pop a bit more and don't look as out of place

I've done this by taking images of a plain white background off google and placing them behind the image

Here I've implemented a trick in which I copied the image of the camera 3 times and layered them over each other, then lowered the opacity to make it look like the camera is is moving into frame or fading in, just to ad a bit of uniqueness to my cover

penultimately, I've added the text to the cover 

Finally, I've added a mini promo for two free educational books you get with the magazine and made up a fake price to make it seem like good value for the buyer. the books I've chose to advertise will also suit the audience as they are beginner friendly guides to help them on their photography journey 

EXPERIMENTATION:

while making this front cover, I changed and tweaked it to make it better. here are some previous additions i decided to remove or change 
 

this is similar to what it originally looked like, I am happy with the changes I made as having yellow in a Canon ad doesn't really make sense as its not a colour associated with the brand.

another thing I'm glad I changed is the addition of extra pictures in the bottom right as I the extra pictures give it a more finished look 

EDITING THE PRINT ADVERT: USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Unlike the magazine cover, the print advert didn't require as much editing. 

Firstly, I inserted the base image onto photoshop and i had to rotate it slightly as the image I took on my camera was slightly askew.

Secondly, I added in a white border around the image to cover up the bit of the image where you can see I've rotated it and also to provide a bit of dead-space in the image so it doesn't look to crowded.

Next, I added a sunset to my image as that's how I wanted to have it originally but due to it being winter it was quite cloudy outside.

I accomplished this by cutting out an image of just my dad and the monument while leaving out the sky. 

Then I layered it over the top of the original image and added in a picture of a sunset I found on google, I then changed the opacity of the sunset image. 

Finally, I added in the canon logo and some text and the print advert was finished.

 EPERIMENTATION:

This is another print ad I made, using the same method of cutting the base image out and layering it on top. I also like how this one turned out, but I thought the other one looked more like what I was going for with my final piece so I chose that one to use as my final product.