Magazine workday 1 & 2

Good Morning!!

You should start mocking up your cover - you could come up with a name, get a date line, start looking for a bar code or making one, starting to think about headlines (called cover lines in the magazine world), colors, design elements you may want to include in your magazine cover

Crop your image in Photoshop - 8.5 inches x 11 inches at 300 resolution. To get those sub-menu choices you have to select the crop tool.

Always save as the first time you touch an image and from then on you can just save.

Don't forget to do levels.

To get the image into InDesign - you need make an X-box to place the photo in. Once you have the box made - you can either command-D or you can go under >file to >place.

Use the text tool to create boxes that you can type into. Don't forget to play with colors, sizes and even fonts. Be creative

If you are comfortable using Photoshop to do text or other things, feel free. But remember to make your document 8.5 x 11 inches because you will have to import the completed image to InDesign. You may have to flatten your layers and make sure to save it as a .jpeg.

Your Magazine Covers MUST include the following:

You will need to complete the following on each cover, you will be turning in TWO:

A. Magazine name

Think carefully about the font you use

You may not use the name of a real magazine (except on accident) - so please get creative!!

B. A teaser / cover line (headline type description) for the main story.

For "picture married to type" you must have at least 3-4 teasers/headlines (cover lines)
For a "forest of words" type cover you must have 5 or more teasers/headlines (cover lines):

C. Pricing and date information and a bar code (appropriately sized!!)If you want to do some fun things with your image, like putting text over your photo or making a cut-out, here are some tutorials:

If you want to try to add a second or even third photo to model a magazine cover you like, go for it.

TEXT OVERLAP TUTORIAL -- If you really want to make your magazine cover look professional, try making the subject in your photo overlap the title of your magazine. Below is a link to a good tutorial to teach you how to add layers in Photoshop to create this effect.

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/overlap-text/

CUT-OUT TUTORIAL - if you are interested in doing some sort of cut-out, you can visit this link for a tutorial. This will walk you through the process of completing a cut-out. Don't forget it still needs to be cropped at 8.5x11 inches.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2g3s369dymjzp7/Cut-outs%20using%20Quick%20Mask-revised.pdf

If you want to practice once using the same image as the tutorial, the link to the cat photo is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4eubvva5sgrlh1o/cat.jpg

How to make a cut-out using Quick Mask Tool

We are going to cut out the cat out of its background.

Step 1: Open the file named “Cat” in Photoshop and make sure the layer he is on is selected.

Step 2: Click the edit in Quick Mask Mode button( ) in the Tools panel. In Quick Mask Mode, a red overlay

appears as you make a selection, masking the area outside the selection.

Step 3: In the Tools Panel, Select the Brush tool

Step 4: Open the Brush pop-up panel by right clicking on the screen, and select a large hard brush. Click outside

the panel to close it.

Step 5: Start to paint on the cat. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Just make sure you have the cat painted with the

red overlay.

Step 6: Press the Quick Mask Tool button again, and what you painted will be selected. Click the Mask Panel,

which is grouped with the Adjustment Panel, and click on the add a Pixel mask button( ). The cat shouldn’t

be visible right now. Click on the invert button on the Mask Panel, and the cat should appear while the

background disappears.

Step 7: With the brush tool paint the remaining unneeded pixels with black to delete the rest of the background

you don’t want. Try reducing the size of your brush to more accurately delete pixels. If you mess up, press X on

the keyboard to switch from painting in black to painting in white. When you paint with white, any pixels you

accidentally deleted will return.

Your image should look like this when you are finished deleting the unnecessary pixels.

Step 8: In the Mask panel, choose the Mask edge button, and dialog box will pop open. Adjust the option in the

Refine Mask dialog box so that the mask fits more snugly around the edge of the statue. I set the Radius at 0,

Contrast to 100, Smooth to 6, Feather to 2.4. Click “OK” when the mask looks accurate.

Step 9: When you are done refining the edge of the mask, go to File > Save as… Save the file to your yearbook

student folder. Name the file “LastName_Cat cut-out.” Make sure you save the file in PNG format. You’re

done!

IMPORTANT: Always save cut-outs as PNG files. JPG does not support transparent backgrounds.

HOT TIP: Always save your original cut-out as a PSD file somewhere safe so you can re-edit your cut-out

again later if needed.