Project Monitoring

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28th  Jan

1 In this lesson I will start work on my contents page on in design. I will be setting up margins and the text for the contents page but I will be in able to add all of the imagery just yet. 2 In this lesson I will conduct my photoshoot, making sure that all of my models are there and I have the necessary props for the shoot. 3 Finish the first draft of my front cover, which I have already started prior to the 7th of January. 4 Project Monitoring & time for contingency. Homework 1: I will carry on to work on my contents page. Homework 2: import the images into several places in a readable format, putting them on a memory stick, email format and on my network space to insure that I don’t lose my images. Homework 3: Post production of images; editing the contrast, colour manipulation, image and facial correction.

This was my schedule plan for this week. In lesson 1, I started work on my contents page, I added in some images I though were appropriate, the title and a couple of headlines for the main stories. I have not however made any advancements with this due to being off college on Thursday and therefore inable to access the software.

I have conducted the photo shoot for the Dos and Don'ts of Teen Holidays article in second lesson, as scheduled. I have also edited some of these images on Photoshop   I have done this by taking out the colour of the background, that was off white, and making it white. I have also edited the reflection of the studio lights out of the sun glasses in the models; to make the photos look less candid. 

 

These are some of the photos unedited alongside the edited version that I will include in my double page spreads. For these photos I used the magic wand tool to select the background colour, and then I used the magnetic lasso tool to deselect parts of the models that had been included, then changed the brightness to 150 to make it white. I then used the magnetic lasso to select the lenses of the sunglasses so that I could edit out the light reflections. I used the clone tool to get rid of some imperfections on my models also.

This week I have worked on, and finished the first draft of, the Fundraising 101 article. I have looked at other layouts closely and have added some extra images.

I have also made some changes to the front cover:

I have added a bar code, and the issue number and date to what I had already created. I got the image of the bar code off the internet.