Magazine Cover - Final Draft

I have since edited my cover from the image below. I decided to use all original images instead of found images as the one below shows. Below is the FINAL DRAFT of my magazine cover.

This is the final draft of my magazine cover. I am much happier with the outcome of it. I realised that one of the main problems with the drafts was that the main image had the background to it. This is not usually seen on real TV guides. I set about to change this.

I opened a selection of images onto photoshop and practiced with a variety of the tools to erase the background. The first image I edited was the one of Thegla's face. I did this using the 'Elliptical Marquee Tool'. This allowed me to cut Thegla's face into a round shape.

Next to edit the main image I firstly used the magnetic lasso tool which allowed me to cut out the part of the picture I wanted to use. In this case, us. I then used the eraser tool set on a soft brush which allowed me to blur the edges. I had to magnify the image because Elena's curly hair made erasing the background hard. I had to erase it almost pixel by pixel. I then cropped the picture to get rid of the extra white space.

For another image, I used a different method to edit the picture and cut out just the part I wanted. I used the extract tool by highlighting the edges that I wanted to cut and then the programme cut the image out for me. I then tidied the edges with the eraser then used the history brush tool to completely tidy the image.

I chose to use the image I edited with the extract tool as we were all standing closer together. However, once I put the image onto Publisher and tried to make it transparent (so the white background of the picture couldn't be seen) parts of the image went transparent too such as my nose, Elena's hands and the side of Thegla's face. Natalie's silver bracelet and Elena's ring also turned transparent. In order to solve this problem, I had to darken the whiter skin tones and the silver jewellery. I also erased Elena's ring off her finger as it would not darken enough.

Once I was satisfied with my image, I filled up the cover with things seen on successful TV guide covers, such as the straplines and the puff.

I changed the name of the magazine to 'All TV' as I thought 'TV Revealed' was too long, after having researched the lengths of TV magazine titles. Such titles included 'TV Choice'. 'What's on TV' and 'Radio Times'. I used bright, eye-catching colours to draw in the reader. I found that most TV guides use a blue as their background.

Below is the draft which uses found images from the internet.

(OLD ONE!!)