CCR Question #4 Draft

For my photos I used an iPhone XR. I wanted to use this model because of its camera quality and its portrait filter, which I used for my cover photo. I used the portrait mode on the iPhone XR to focus on the subject, specifically. This took away a lot of editing in photoshop, and allowed content placement to be easy. I also used an iPhone 6 for some of the other photos from the first photo shoot. For the photo of the subject surrounded by the junk food, I used the dramatic warmth filter to evoke a dramatic feeling around the subject who has an unhealthy relationship with food. For the photo of the subject weighing herself, I used the mono filter on the iPhone 6. I used this filter to create the effect of the pitfalls of weight-loss and weight-gain and how it always revolves around the number on the scale.
For the editing process, I used Publisher, InDesign, and Photoshop. I used Publisher first. In this program I used text boxes for my content and text outlines. I used the transparency affect on my cover photo. I used the two column option for my article. This is the extent of the detail I utilized in Publisher, because I soon transferred over to InDesign. The rest of my editing was primarily done in InDesign. I changed my photo for my cover in InDesign. I edited this photo in Photoshop. I had to remove a sweat stain from the shirt of my subject and I used the warmth effect for the vivacity of the photo. I continued editing in InDesign. I used the fill and stroke tool for the lettering in my cover page. I changed my cover page title font to a more professional looking font with all capitals, a white fill, and a grey stroke around the letters for better readability. I used text boxes for all the content I used in the cover page.  I made the  featured article title bold so it would stand out. These features truly allowed for my cover page to have a more professional appeal. My contents page photo was also changed in InDesign.
I made the photo 50% transparent. This allowed for the words on the page to be visible for the reader. I used the Castellar font to allow the photo to have a creative look. I used the bold Cond option for the font of the article titles. These aspects allowed for the contents page to be easily navigable.
For my article photos, I used the 75% opacity for the photo behind the title of the article. This allows the title to be easily read and the photo to be a side dish to the main course, which is the article. The second photo of the girl on the scale has a basic feather effect applied to it. Its black and white feel comes from the mono filter from the iphone 6. The black and white hue and the basic feather effect come together to create a dreary feeling. This is used in commercials to communicate a feeling of failure and discontentment. This is what I am attempting to evoke in the reader. The next photo of the man surrounded by food has the dramatic warmth filter and a drop shadow applied to it for a professional look. The last photo I used has no filters and is in its raw form. The last tool I used was the line tool to create a line under the text on the article pages. This is very conventional for magazines and separates the page number and website from the text. Under this line I placed the the page number of the articles on the left, while my brand website is featured on the right. These were input with text boxes.
All of these technologies came together to help me form my product. I learned a myriad of methods for creating a professional magazine.

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