Magazine cover

This assignment was to show the skills we learned in class using Adobe Photoshop. We were told that we had to select a favored magazine to use as an example. The rules to this assignment were to use the skills taught to us during class. Those skills included using the magic wand tool, and continued use of the magnetic and polygonal lasso tools. Our first step was to extract the magazine logo and paste it on our magazine cover in the correct size. Then we wrote down possible headlines for our magazine, after which we took several pictures of ourselves ad selected the one that best fit our headlines.

My magazine cover looks like a decent magazine. It has a black to white graduate background. The picture of me that I selected was of me standing against a wall, I added a filter to that image to make it look like a sketch and relate it to the colors of the image to that of the background.

Through my magazine I’m trying to bring an emphasis t my skills as a guitarist and how I’ve progressed over the two and a half years that I’ve been playing. I’m doing so by giving an “interview” with my friend and fellow guitarist, Luis. I also show that a well known band, My Chemical Romance, opens a gig for me.

According to the rubric, I feel my completed artwork could have been better, because, even though it illustrates what I’m trying to convey, the picture and filter I used is blurry and doesn’t show many of my features. I would like to improve upon my selected background and selected picture, to better convey my message. Maybe using more symbolism, using a view of space showing my unlimited possibilities, and using a picture of me looking up into the sky.