The document describes revisions made to a magazine advertisement design. It summarizes changes made to improve readability of text using different colors and adding an outline. It also discusses cropping a photo to make space for text, converting it to black and white with a blue tint, and using Photoshop tools like actions, healing brush, and adjustment layers.

1. My magazine advert
This was my ‘draft’ of my magazine
advert. After showing it to my teacher
she only mentioned that perhaps the
writing about the album (‚the debut
album includes the singles ‘The City’
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and ‘Give me love’) was a bit difficult
to read because of the blue. I tried to
make the white line around the letters
a bit stronger to make it more visible,
but I was still not fully satisfied with
the result. So I decided to change
them to white with a blue stroke
around it, just like the title ‘Escape’ is
written.

2. This is how my advert looks now.
The text is much clearer in white. I
will explain the steps I took to
construct my advert on
Photoshop.
The text
To add the text I simply used the
typing tool (‘T’) and I used the same
colour scheme (white and blue) and
same font of my digipak. What’s new
here is that the text has an outline
around the letters. The reason why I
chose to do that is because I thought it
would help the text to stand out more
in the black and white photograph
(especially the blue, which I thought
essential since it’s my main colour).

3. To create this line around the letters, I right clicked the layer of
the text and clicked on ‘Blending Options’. This would open
some options of layer style, and I ticked the option ‘stroke’. I can
arrange the configurations the way I want, what colour I want
the stroke, what size, opacity, etc. I used this same tool to outline
in blue the image of my digipak cover.

4. The photograph
I cropped the photograph because this image is very
busy and it does not have space allowing me to write
anything. Trying to be similar to Ed Sheeran’s advert in
which the text is on his shirt, I cropped the mage in a
way that I can have a closer shot of his face (to promote
him better) and space to write on his shirt.

5. I decided to use a black and white photograph because it is very conventional of the
genre and to be similar to Ed Sheeran’s advert as well. However, I didn’t want a
common black & white, I wanted a more sophisticated one and with a slightly blue
effect to keep this blue tone recurrent in the ancillary products. So I added two
different effects to my image by using ‘actions’.
The first action
that I used was
this one. It gives
the image a nice
black and white
effect with some
sophisticated
tones. Then, on
top of this action,
I used another
action called
‘Green tint’ that
added a blue
tone to the
image.

6. And then I removed little imperfections
of his face with the healing brush tool. I
have also changed slightly the curves
and the levels to create a nice contrast.