Portrait

Magazine Cover Final

Use Formal portrait or fictional self -portrait, or shoot a new portrait to create a MAGAZINE COVER. Your Cover MUST include:

Step 1. : Open a new photoshop document.Canvas size 8.5" wide by 10.5"  high @ 300 ppi
Paint bucket/ gradient tool. Background color.

Step 2: File /place your portrait image into this file(save).

Step 3: Use your text tool , choose an appropriate font and color to type in your masthead title(A). Choose font carefully. Make it bold enough to be a focal point.Use Text effects

Step 4: Keeping the layer highlighted, switch to the move tool, use the transform tool(command T)
to stretch your text to fill the top portion of the cover.

Step 5: Select the type tool, type in the date and number (B).Use a contrasting color and a smaller font. Use the move tool to position it.

Step 6: Using the Text tool, type your feature headline(C). Choose a font that is in contrast to your masthead. Use a bold face and color to make it stand out( Remember text effects ex: drop shadow, outerglow ,inner glow etc).This should grab the attention of the reader . Make the size larger than your article headlines will be.This will highlight the main article.

Step 7:Create 4 different article headlines(D). They should all be the same size and color.You may pop out one or two bold or italic version of the face, or an appropriate contrasting color.Ideas include transform, warp, rotate, skew and  text effects.

Step 8: Cut and Paste in the QR code. Size appropriately.

Note: Watch your spacing, leave a margin around the entire cover at least 1/4", Make sure your text does not overlap, Use color wisely, Edit your image to make sure it is top quality, use effects and blending modes effectively and carefully.

Weekly Vocabulary

METADATA

DPI-Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi)is a measure of spatial printing or video dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch (2.54 cm).

A 10 × 10-pixel image on a computer display usually requires many more than 10 × 10 printer dots to accurately reproduce, due to limitations of available ink colors in the printer; here, a 60x60 grid is used, providing 36x the original density, compensating for the printer's lower color depth. The whole blue pixels making up the sphere are reproduced by the printer using different overlaid combinations of cyan, magenta, and black ink, and the light aqua by cyan and yellow with some "white" (ink-free) print pixels within the actual image pixel. When viewed at a more normal distance, the primary colored stippled dots appear to merge into a smoother, more richly colored image.

Pixels per inch (PPI) or pixels per centimeter (PPCM) is a measurement of the pixel density (resolution) of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display, or image digitizing device such as a camera or image scanner. Horizontal and vertical density are usually the same, as most devices have square pixels, but differ on devices that have non-square pixels.

Calculation of monitor PPI

Theoretically, PPI can be calculated from knowing the diagonal size of the screen in inches and the resolution in pixels (width and height).
 METADATA-Metadata is "data about data".^[1] Two types of metadata exist: structural metadata and descriptive metadata. Structural metadata is data about the containers of data. Descriptive metadata uses individual instances of application data or the data content.

For example, a digital image may include metadata that describe how large the picture is, the color depth, the image resolution, when the image was created, and other data.^[3] A text document's metadata may contain information about how long the document is, who the author is, when the document was written, and a short summary of the document.

Pixels per inch (PPI) or pixels per centimeter (PPCM) is a measurement of the pixel density (resolution) of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display, or image digitizing device such as a camera or image scanner. Horizontal and vertical density are usually the same, as most devices have square pixels, but differ on devices that have non-square pixels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

Portrait

TIPS:
Background
Lighting
Setting
Composition