MUSIC MAGAZINE Front Cover Main Image

To create the front cover of my music magazine I have decided to use photoshop as I feel more comfortable using it than in-design. Since creating the front cover of my school magazine I have started practicing more with photoshop so that I would be experienced enough to use the wide range of tools and settings to create my image and front cover of my music magazine. I also asked my sister for help with photoshop as she is now completing her final year of a Higher National Diploma in photography, meaning she was able to show me some of the tools and functions that I didn't already know how to use to to improve on my image.




My image of Lucy initially started out in full colour. I had good bright lighting with use of an industrial light in the shoot to make the image as bright as possible, increasing the amount of higlights by using the flash on the front of the DSLR camera. I did this because I know that whilst using photoshop it is easy to tone down the lighter tones into a darker shade, but when it comes to the darker tones it is not so easy to make them brighter if you have no light tones to begin with.

From the shoot I narrowed down 33 front cover poses and images down to these two shown. I was seriously unsure of which to use as the main image on my front cover as I thought both of them were really strong images with a lot of potential to convey the Rock/Pop kind of edgy look that I was aiming for. So with a little thought I took both images and decided to edit them both properly, so that it would give me a real view of what either of them would look like as a finished music magazine product.

Other possibilities from the shoot for my main image: