This is my first official draft of my adaptation of W magazine. As you can see I have rearranged and made part of the text bigger. This is because due to the image I have chosen my model takes up the centre and the far left. Therefore the text was positioned on the right hand side to fill gaps and to be more easily readable.
I have chosen this image in particular as it creates enigma.You can only see half of the models face, this is because the article that would be featured in the magazine if it were real would be able the new and up coming star. Therefore as an audience member looking upon it you are intrigued by who this new woman is. The pose being used is also to show genre of being a bit "crazy" which also brings the connection to the main heading.
I have also added in a bar code that was missing previously. On my research I discovered that W magazine has their barcode in the bottom left hand corner of the front cover. On my research I have found no evidence of price being on the front or a website address as seen on many other magazines. I will continue to look and if I do find these I shall include them but for now I am sticking to my findings already into W magazine.
The actual skills involved in cropping out the model from her background was difficult and time consuming. I have used the Polygonal Lasso tool on Photoshop to crop out most of the model. It has taken me about three tries in cutting away all the background. I have also used the magic wand tool. This tool is very amateur, however around the hair is very short and fine and I could not manage to cut away around it myself. The edges on the model are still rough and I intend to finalise the magazine but softening out the edges.
In all I am pleased with my first attempt. After my first evaluation with my class mates that said it does not show genre. As previously the background was white and the text was pink. I still have a fair bit of work to do on the cover but it total I am pleased.
Thoughts and comments about this cover from other people will be uploaded shortly.
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