Magazine Cover Example- Cal High

 

Final Magazine Cover

   Use Formal portrait or fictional self -portrait, or shoot a new portrait to create a MAGAZINE COVER. Your Cover MUST include:

Step 1. : Open a new photoshop document.Canvas size 8.5" wide by 10.5"  high @ 300 ppi
Paint bucket/ gradient tool. Background color.

Step 2: File /place your portrait image into this file(save).

Step 3: Use your text tool , choose an appropriate font and color to type in your masthead title(A). Choose font carefully. Make it bold enough to be a focal point.Use Text effects

Step 4: Keeping the layer highlighted, switch to the move tool, use the transform tool(command T)
to stretch your text to fill the top portion of the cover.

Step 5: Select the type tool, type in the date and number (B).Use a contrasting color and a smaller font. Use the move tool to position it.

Step 6: Using the Text tool, type your feature headline(C). Choose a font that is in contrast to your masthead. Use a bold face and color to make it stand out( Remember text effects ex: drop shadow, outerglow ,inner glow etc).This should grab the attention of the reader . Make the size larger than your article headlines will be.This will highlight the main article.

Step 7:Create 4 different article headlines(D). They should all be the same size and color.You may pop out one or two bold or italic version of the face, or an appropriate contrasting color.Ideas include transform, warp, rotate, skew and  text effects.

Step 8: Cut and Paste in the QR code. Size appropriately.

Note: Watch your spacing, leave a margin around the entire cover at least 1/4", Make sure your text does not overlap, Use color wisely, Edit your image to make sure it is top quality, use effects and blending modes effectively and carefully.

High Key and Low Key Portraits

 https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/discover/low-key-vs-high-key-lighting.html

Platon

https://digital-photography-school.com/low-key-photography-highlighting-darkness/

Rubric   Assignment: For this assignment you will photograph 2 frames with high key and low key images.If low key is moody and high key is more airy then consider not only your subject while you are shooting but also your lighting and camera settings. Some of this can be done after the fact with your editing in photoshop, and some has to be done in camera while you are shooting. You are showing me equal high key and low key photographs for this assignment. It may take two separate shoots with different ideas in mind.  Steps: • 2 resources on low key photography (article #1, article #2) •  this resource on high key photography • When you are focused on low key, be sure to have a darker background and expose it a little below what the light meter asks for. ​• When you are exposing for high key, make sure to have a brighter background and expose maybe a little bit higher than the light meter dictates

Artist of the Week RICHARD AVEDON

View Avedon's photography .Choose top 2 images . Post to your website.Answer the following questions
1. How is the technical quality? 
2. How’s the composition? 
3. What do you find interesting about his work? 

Platon

  

http://www.platonphoto.com/menu/

 Questions on Platon's Photography

1. Describe how Platon views the role of the camera in his work. What does he believe is more important than the technical aspects of photography?

2. In what ways does Platon aim to connect with his subjects before taking their portraits? Explain the significance of this connection in his photography.

The Collodion - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 5 of 12

   

Photography and Its Historical Impact

1. Describe the significance of the wet collodion process in the evolution of photography.

2. Explain how the introduction of tintypes changed the accessibility of photography during the American Civil War.

Image in Text

    

Create 3 projects

Post the images you used and the final products to your website.

 

Steps-

1..Background layer- Image
2. Color layer- Paint bucket on new layer
3. Pull your background image to the top of your layers and use the text tool to type a word.
4. Right click on the top layer and create a clipping mask
5. Double click text layer and create a drop shadow to add depth to the text