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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Magazine Covers

Early Magazine Covers

Name- Heavy Metal
Year-1981
Description-The adult illustrated fantasy magazine, more like a comic.

Poster Cover

Name- Inception
Date- July 16
Description- A movie poster about the dream is real.

Pictures married to type

Name- Travel gold list 2013

Date-2013

Description- Best place to travel in 2013.

Forest of Words

Name- Forest Creatures
Date- A long time ago
Description- About forests.

My magazine

Monday, February 3, 2014

Photoshop Introduction

1. What are the three parts of Adobe Photoshop?

Editing

Manipulation

Create

2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?

Graphic designers

Magazine makers

3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?

Effects

Filters

Layers

NEXT, go to the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/gettingstarted/

Under the heading "Common Tools" describe in your own words, what the function is for the following tools.

4. Crop Tool

The crop tool is used to cut portion of photos.

5. Lasso Tool

Lasso tool is used to select a specific Area of a photo.

6. Text Tool

The text tool will that one is self explanatory it is used to add in the text in photos. with the text tool however, you can also do special effects with it.

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

To use the Undo option you click "Command and z" to go back 1 step.

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

If you wanna go back more them one step then you use "Command + Control + z"

NEXT, Go the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/croporient/

9. How do you rotate an image?

When you are cropping it gives you the option to Rotate the image before you finalize the selected area. Same thing applies with the text tool.

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

By grabbing the Edge of the cropped area and adjusting it.

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 are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop.

NEXT, go to the following Web site and answer the following questions:

http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=122104&sid=1049942

Under the heading "For Printing" find where it talks about resolution or "Pixels Per Inch" (ppi).

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

A good resolution for newsletters and newspapers is 150 to 200 ppi.

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

Magazines prefer a high resolution image of 250 ppi or more.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

best magazine covers of 2013 and the last 40 Years

#25 TIME (September 14, 2001)
The magazine cover of the September 14, 2001, special edition of TIME features a photograph of the two hijacked airliners ripping through the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, taken by photographer Lyle Owerkoof. The issue included testimonies from survivors, more photographs of the Twin Towers after the bombings, and a salute to all those who perished in the tragedy.

This is my favorite, and I think this is a great cover because it is clean and neat, only one picture one title and one date. This will make us remember everything happened that day.

Magazine Essential Parts

Selling line
Short, sharp description of the title's main marketing point.

Cover lines
run over an image that has a lot of color changes, rendering the words difficult to read.

Bar code
Standard bar code used by retailers.

Left third
vital for sales in shops where the magazine is not shown full-frontage.

Masthead
The name of the magazine displayed in a specific typeface.

Dateline
Month and year of publication, often with the price.

Main image
The image is used in a classic way, the face is big enough to stand out on the news-stand, with the model making full eye-contact.

Model credit
The photographer and model credit is usually on the contents page .

Main cover line
This is very large - taking up almost a quarter of the magazine cover - and comes in three layers, each with a different color.