18th March 2009

In todays lesson we went down to the computer rooms again to create our music magazine for the main task. We are using photoshop to do this. Using our feedbacks from the preliminary task i am trying to make my music magazine better. When i had done the preliminary task i had little experience with using photoshop so i made the magazine with basic knowledge of photoshop, but now i have more experience with photoshop i am able to make the main task turn out better. I have made a mock up of the music magazines front cover (which will be posted up as soon as it has been scanned) and i am trying to follow the order of the mock up. when i had done the preliminary task i did not follow my mock up very well so i will try this time to follow the mock up that i have created.

I have taken a wide variety of images for the music magazine and have chosen out of the images what images i want to use in the magazine and what i don't.

It was difficult to find locations to take images as i could only take the images of people while i am at school as the people that i requied to take pictures of could only do this during school time. it was not easy to find good locations especially since it was a rock band.

These are some of the pictures i have taken. I had trouble taking these pictures because the lighting was not very good.

I like this shot that i have taken as the pose was very good. I thought that this would be good to use as my front cover image. I edited the background of this image using photoshop as it was not shot very well. The background has a white gap by the wall and it does not look very professional.

I put a Red and Black background on this image using photoshop. I used the eraser tool on photoshop to get rid of the back ground and the then used the magic wand to select the image and take it to a different background. This was very time consuming as i had to be very careful when using the eraser to to make sure that i don't erase the band members and i had to make sure that the erasing was smooth, so that it didn't look like it was cut out. I could have used the magic wand to select the whole image to take it to a different background without eraing but, when i tried it the magic wand had not selected the image very well, so i had to erase the background first in order to select it.

Ireally like this pose in the image as it had the whole rock style pose, but i cannot use it as one of the members eyes are closed.
I wanted to use this image as an album cover.

Instead of using the image above as my album cover, i have taken another shot, and have decided to go with this image as the pose is still very good. Again i am thinking of editing the background of this image. i am thinking of using this image in the double page spread of the magazine.

I have taken individual images of this group to put into the double page spread. I will be using all three of the images below to make my double page spread.

These pictures are of the main band OBLIVION.