Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Magazine part 2

Early magazine covers-The magazine covers in this time look nothing like what you would find today. The cover was mainly used for the title and table of contents. They didn't have anything on the cover explaining what was inside of the magazine.

The poster cover-These magazines might as well have been a poster since it was so big. The cover didn't give away what was inside. Sometimes the pictures that were on the cover really didn't relate to what the magazine was about.


Pictures Married to Type-These magazine covers started to use more cover lines. People use these covers to help the reader be more interested in reading the magazine. The cover lines also inform you more about what the magazine was about, who took the pictures, and who helped make the cover/magazine.

In the Forest of Words-These magazines cover lines were just as important than cover art was. Sometimes more because the model would be covered up more with words.The words were printed across the bodies of the models. In time the number of cover lines on a cover have increased to tell the buyer on what the magazine will be about. The cover lines are sometimes bigger than the actual names of the magazine itself.

Best magazine covers

Best magazine covers of 2012
    1. informal

    2. informal

    5. formal

    6. formal

    7. informal

    8. environmental

    9. informal

    10. formal

    13. informal

    14. informal

    15. informal

    16. formal

    21. informal

    22. informal

    26. informal

    28. informal

    31. informal

      Thursday, February 7, 2013

      5 web sites


      On this website all of the pictures were a landscape picture. To me the photos look like they were taken either early morning or sunset. I think that because in multiple photos they had the moon it and the moon isn't out during the day. The photos I most liked was the one that had water in them because the water made a cool fog-like effect.

      I learned that black and white photos make the picture look more mysterious, because there is nothing distracting the viewer to just one part of the photo.

      My favorite photo.
      I choose this photo because I love how the water looks.  Everything looks so mysterious.

      I see rule of thirds. avoid mergers 

      (nz)dave's took the photo


      Storms

      On this website I loved how most of the pictures were in a pretty location and then you see this storm coming. It looks like something bad is going to happen. I especially loved the lighting pictures. I have always thought lighting was "shocking"

      My favorite photo.
      I choose this photo because its a calm day with this storm on the way. Like a beautiful day about to go bad

      I see depth of fields

      Brent Pearson took this photo


      portrait-self portrait

      Portrait



      Self Portrait
      hh

      Friday, February 1, 2013

      Magazine Cover Introduction:Blog #1

      1.Arousing curiosity (that’s to pull the casual glancer in)
      2.Never trim a printout, mount it beautifully,
      3.print out all the alternates as hard copy, trim them accurately to magazine size and glue them onto old issues
      4. Dont judge on screen It lacks scale because it is isolated in its own magic electronic world, so you have nothing real to compare it to. You can only guess at type sizes and hope they’re OK.
      5. Also The screen is the wrong size, no matter how big it is. You can’t see it intimately as if it were in your hands.

      Photoshop Notes


      ·      Nestle- tools are stacked on each other to access tools left click and hold
         Use command keys!  
       
       Command + = zoom out
        Command - = zoom in 
         Command o = open
       Command c = copy
      Command v =paste 
      ****Command z = Step Back****

      ·      To turn an Image go to >image>Image Rotation
        CW = Clockwise
        CCW = Counter-Clockwise
      180 = ½ Rotation
       
      ·      >Image>Adjustment>Levels
      Channel Blue
      Channel Green
      Channel Red
      Move just the Black and white Hershey’s Kiss
        Channel RGB
      Move just the Brown Hershey’s kiss to make it lighter
       
      ·      SAVE AS
      Always change the name of picture
      Always save in JPEG format
      After saving JPEG options will pop up, always change to the maximum file size

      triangle green backpack


      Backpack
      Green
      Triangle
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