Images for Media Magazine after Photoshop

For the image of Carl Cox in Space, I left in the blue wall and the slightly saturated effect as it makes the picture stand out, however a few dark spaces in the picture I have altered with the spot healing brush and the clone stamp tool.

For this image of Luciano in Ushuaia, I have cropped out a few cameras at the bottom of my image to make it look like a professionally took photo and have left the rest as there isn't much else left to alter in my opinion.

As for this image of my little boy testing out now software, i have cropped out the wellys and shoes in the back ground in order to make it look like a more professional 'bedroom studio' in which hes playing in and have left the corner of the dressing table to hint that dj decks could be there.

This image of Swedish House Mafia at the Milton Keynes Bowl has also been slightly altered to remove some of the heads at the bottom of the picture again to give it the feel of a professionally took photograph.

As for this image of Steve Lawler at Circus Liverpool, there is little I can do to reduce the lighting without ruining the picture so I have slightly used to Polygonic Lasso Tool to select the area and decreased the brightness a bit, but as this picture still remains slightly unclear I may just use it as a decorative image on the likes of the contents page or on small in the front page, as it still gives off a good impression of a rave environment in my opinion.

This is my favorite picture from all of those I have used Photoshop to edit. In this image i used the clone stamp tool to remove the boxes from the bottom left corner and essentially clear the room with view of the floor now to make the environment look more professional. I then used the Polygonic Lasso Tool to select the whole environment apart from the Pioneer CDJ's and turned it into black and white, leaving just the decks in colour. I then selected the decks again with the Polygonic Lasso Tool and increased the brightness for them to stand out even more and I believe that the effect it gives off means the use of photoshop has worked well.

Lastly my image of Ushuaia in Ibiza hasn't been touched because although I would like to remove the shadow and possibly some of the clouds, it is hard to do so without ruining the picture, and with someone who isn't as skilled as maybe a professional is on photoshop, I have left it as it is, as I believe the image still portrays the message I want it too.

Music Mag Pictures before Photoshop

Here are my music magazine images for my music magazine and I have narrowed it down to 7 images, all taken by me in numerous locations. One of the images I took in September 2012 in Ibiza nightclub Ushuaia and I will use this as my front page with the heading 'Ushuaia Ibiza Refurbished'. The second image is a friend of mine taken playing on a pair of Pioneer CDJ 2000's which I am going to use on my double page spread, and say he is testing out new technology. The third is a picture of a little boy and I will also use this on my caption saying he is 'testing out new software' in his 'bedroom studio'. The forth is one of Ushuaia resident DJ, Luciano, and I taken this picture in 2012 in Ushuaia Ibiza, and I will say as he closes his set in Ushuaia he tests out the new software. Fifth is a picture I took myself of Swedish House Mafia at Milton Keynes Bowl, but I will say it was taken at Ultra Music Festival on their last ever show, and I will use this on my contents page. Sixth is a picture of space resident Carl Cox playing in Space 2011 that I took myself in the main room, and I again will say that it was taken inside a club in Miami closing Miami Music Week which will be the main topic inside my magazine. Lastly, I will also use an image of Steve Lawler in Circus Liverpool on Easter Sunday somewhere else in my magazine, and the colours in the image will liven up a page.

Logo for Music Magazine

I have designed my logo for my music magazine, and in this I have took influence from the Mixmag magazine featuring the vinyl disc above the I, but that also supports my name, 'the vinyl.' I have made it in the colour i plan to use for most of my magazine in my house style, which is Black and Lime green and have downloaded a font called 'wire' from www.dafont.com in order to make this, then used photoshop to put the images together to make the finished product.

Moodboard for Music Magazine

Here is a copy of my mood board with features images related to electronic dance music in many different ways. It features skylines from the likes of Detroit and New York that are two of the possible birth places of dance music, it features tickets from the worlds best electronic dance music festival Ultra Music Festival that is featured on Bayfront Park in Miami. As well as this, a promotion poster from Electric Daisy Carnival in New York is featured which is another highly successful dance music festival. An image of Ibiza airport is also featured which is a highly popular holiday destination for all people who enjoy this type of music as world famous dj's play there in the summer season every day of the week. Images from Deep House/Tech DJ Jamie Jones playing from Ultra Music festival as well as the Swedish House Mafia playing at Tomorrowland, Tommy Trash playing at his pool party in Miami and Porter Robinson playing in world famous club Marquee in Las Vegas are also featured as these are big stars in all the different Genres in Electronic music. The feature of the Cream logo is because this is the biggest brand concerned with Dance music. The DJ top 100 magazine heading is also featured, along with the likes of Luciano Cadenza closing in world famous Pacha nightclub in Ibiza, and lastly the Pioneer CDJ 2000 is also featured which is played by almost every house DJ in the world.

Target Audience & Ideas for Music Maazine

Here is a sheet that features all the ideas towards my music magazine with priority on the likes of my target audience.

School Magazine Contents Page

Here is my Contents Page for my School Magazine. There is plenty of changes I will make when it comes to making my finished Music Magazine, despite this I like the gradient tool inside the boxes that the text is in, and the fact that it is in the Maricourt themed colours also benefit the house style. As well as this, the Tahoma font is featured throughout the front page and contents page also benefit the house style,

Example of Photoshopped Images for School Magazine

Here is an example of an image I have used photoshop to edit. As you can see the top image is the original, and I have used the spot removal tool and the Clone Stamp tool to replace the dirty wiring on the wall, and dead flowers, leaving the alive ones, to make it look pretty and more appealing. In the process of removing the wiring I needed to remove some of the shadow from the fence, so in order to make this look realistic i needed to remove the whole shadow, and I did so again with the clone stamp and spot removal. In the corner of the picture it features another heavily shadowed unnatractive building that has been cropped out.