Assignment #1 – Magazine Cover

a) What qualities of your magazine cover make it effective? (eg. What makes it eye catching?, What about it promotes curiosity?, How is it visually pleasing?, What makes it easy to understand?)

My magazine cover has a title that is reasonably large and it stands out. The text is also clear and readable. Other qualities that make this magazine cover attractive are the colourful graphics and the fact that it has catchy story titles. It is also effective because you can figure out the theme of this particular issue of the magazine without difficulty, which makes it easy to understand.

b) What was the order of hierarchy you were trying to achieve for the elements on your magazine cover?

The order of hierarchy that I was trying to achieve was to make the main image and the title of the magazine stand out. Although I succeeded in that, there was some parts of the cover that do not stand out as much as they should. One example of that is the Secondary Storyline. When the finished work was desaturated, the storyline was not as striking as it should have been. Contrast between text colours and images also made the magazine cover eye-catching.

1) Lil Wayne Theme (Image)

2) Large Magazine Title

3)Primary Storyline

4) Secondary Storyline and Image

These are the pictures which I began with before I photoshopped them:

Understanding Resolution

1) Will a 300 dpi image or a 72 dpi image be clearer when printed out at the same size? How come?

When printed out at the same size, a 300 dpi image would be clearer than a 72 dpi image because the dots per inch would inch would be more compressed, therefore, creating the image with more detail. The image that has more dots will be clearer. With a 72 dpi image the dots per inch is 72. But with a 300 dpi image there are 300 dots per inch once again creating a more accurate image.

2) What would a picture created at 1 dpi look like?

A picture at 1 dpi would be difficult to make out because there isn’t enough detail. It would be hard to make sense of what the picture is meant to be because of the large squares and the limited amount of lines that could be used.

The Selection Tools

Fruit_Lasso

Fruit_Wand

Fruit_Combo

1. What combination of tools did you use to isolate the fruit in “fruit_combo.jpg” and where in the image did you use which tool?

To isolate the fruit bowl, I used a combination of the magic wand, the rectangular marquee tool, and magnetic lasso. It was easy to get rid of the top part of the picture with the rectangular marquee tool. The magnetic lasso helped take off the few parts that the magic wand did not delete.

2. Of the methods you used to isolate the fruit in the 3 pictures. Which method did you find most effective in this case?

I find that it is easiest to use the magic wand tool because it takes off a huge chunk from the picture, considering that the background is a completely different colour.

3.

a) Select > Modify > Expand

b)Select > Modify > Contract
 

c)Select > Feather

What do these do? Post a fourth image indicating that you know what feathering does.

Expand makes the image bigger by a certain number of pixels, and contract makes it smaller, eliminating part of the image. 

4. Optional: For the [magic wand] Did you figure out what “contiguous” does? Yes.