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Photo edits for double page spread.

I chose a live photo of each member of Fox & The Hound, and edited them in iPhoto. I selected the ones I thought were most appropriate and gave a clear view of the musician's faces whilst they were playing. They are going to be fairly small when I insert them into the double page spread, as they are to be positioned around the edges of a larger, colour photo of the whole band together. I chose to have them in black and white so that they would stand out more.

I firstly 'enhanced' each of these photos so that they were brighter and clearer, then moved on to edit out any blemishes. I then 'boosted' the colour of each photo, as this gave the images a deeper colour. I adjusted the levels, heightening the 'exposure', which made the photo lighter, and the 'contrast', which juxtaposes the lighter and darker colours by intensifying them both. This makes the photos more striking, and gives them a very subtle animation look.

With the photos of Corey and Jordan, I enhanced the definition so that the highlights in their hair came out clearer.

Matt, Drums.

Corey, Rhythm Guitar.

Sean, Bass Guitar.

Reece, Lead Guitar.

Jordan, Vocals.

Blog Update

Today I continued with my contents page which is almost complete. I took inspiration from my music magazine 'MOJO'.

Contents Design Video

This is a short screen video clip of the process of editing the title 'KANSAS' for my contents page.

Front Cover Edit

I took multiple photos of Fox & The Hound in various settings and different lightings in order to have a wide range of images to choose from. I selected a fairly simple photo of the band at the top of a hill with the sun behind them and edited it accordingly.

This was what the image looked like before it was edited. First I cropped the image, so that it was portrait rather than landscape, as this is the layout of a magazine front cover. I used 'lighten' to make the picture brighter so that their faces were more clear. I also boosted the colours to make them clearer and more vibrant. I like how the blue of the sky gets lighter and more yellow around their figures, because it makes them stand out, creating more of an impact to draw the reader in. I lowered the contrast and added saturation bringing out the colours further, but avoided saturating skin colour to avoid them looking animated. I boosted the definition and highlights to make their faces clearer and add depth to the colour in the image making it further stand out.