Group: Progression of Print Work

The original Image we took for our Magazine advert is on the left and the image on the right is the final version of the photo we will use for our magazine advert. We did multiple thing to the photo on Photoshop to change it to the second image:

• First of all we wanted to edit the colour of the photo, as we wanted it to appear wintery but also slightly lighter as it appeared quite dark to begin with. We used curves twice to firstly bring up the light in the picture slightly and then we used it again to bring down the red in the picture to give it a more blue wintery effect.
• We then decided we wanted the focus of the photo to be on the subjects so we cut the characters out and then used Gaussian Blur to make the back ground out of focus, this also means the shop signs are not a distraction in the image and the subjects are in sharp focus compared to the rest of the image.
• We also really liked the lights in this photo so we used a white pen to bring these out and emphasise them compared to the blurred background.
• Finally we stretched the bottom and the top of the image to be the correct size for a digipak, however we have now decided to use this image for our magazine advert, so we will need to resize it.

To Do

• Resize the image so it is the correct size for a magazine advert.
• Add text to the photo to make it a magazine advert, and make it sutible for the magazine it will be shown in.