Photoshop CS4 was extremelly important in the making of my Music magazine. A few examples of how I used Photoshop is the making of the sticker on the front cover, the colour effect on Jason and the iPod in the top corner of my double page spread. In this example I will show you how I made the sticker.
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| 1.Making the sticker I started by simply drawing a circle and selecting the colour I wanted. Make sure your Rasterize it before doing anything else. |
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| 2. I then took a picture of some old crumpled up paper and uploaded it to Photoshop in a new page. |
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3. After this you will need to use the black arrow at the top of the tool bar and drag the picture of the paper over the circle you just made. Once you have done this you will then have to hold control and click on the picture of the circle on the layers section at the right of the page. If done correctly you will then see an outline of a circle on top of the paper.
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4.Once you have done that you now need to select “Add Layer Mask” which you will find in the bottom right corner undernieth your Layers tool bar. It will look like a box with a circle in it.
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| 5. Now you should see a circle filled with the picture of paper. Now you will need to select the rubber tool and rub out enough of the paper to make it look as if the paper is worn out and peeling off. |
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| 6. Now that you have the look of a torn sticker you now need to merge the two layers and then adding a drop shadow. This is done by selecting “Layer”, then “Layer Style” then finally “Drop Shadow”. Once done an option will pop up where you can customise your shadow to make it as big or as small as you wish. |
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| 7. Now you will need to use the same rubber tool as before and take off the edges that you want to make the sticker really look like its peeling back. |
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| 8. Finally to finish off your sticker add text to it then upload it to your magazine! |
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| Here is the sticker highlighted in the magazine. |
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