Desk Top Publishing #2 Creating a double page spread & taking photographs
September 2008
CONTENTS Introduction....................................................................................... 6 What You Will Learn.......................................................................... 7 Section 1 - Photoshop Task 1 - Opening & Saving a File..................................................... 10 Task 2 - Understanding layers.......................................................... 12
How layers work ................................................................... 12
Task 3 - Editing images...................................................................... 15
Crop tool................................................................................. 15
Magic Wand........................................................................... 16
Lasso tool............................................................................... 18
Task 4 - Manipulating Images.......................................................... 20
Scale Command.................................................................... 21
Filters.................................................................................... 23
Section 2 - InDesign double page spreads Task 1 - Columns............................................................................... 25
Placing................................................................................... 26
Paragraph formatting............................................................ 27
Task 2 - Text Wrap............................................................................ 28 Task 2 - Wrapping text around an image......................................... 30 Section 2 - Taking photos Task 1 - MusicMag cover................................................................... 34
CONTENTS
Cover images......................................................................... 35
Task 2 - MusicMag DPS.................................................................... 45
DPS images........................................................................... 46
Appendix
D E S K TO P P U B L I S H I N G # 2
AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio - Print For AS Media Studies your coursework requires you to produce a 2 print based projects that fulfils the following briefs: Throughout this booklet you will find
Preliminary exercise:
helpful hints and tips in this side area - you
Front page of a new school or college magazine featuring a
can also use it to make
photograph of a student in medium close up plus appropriately
notes about the booklet
laid out text and a masthead. An additional mock layout of a
instructions
contents page is also required to demonstrate your knowledge of DTP. Main task: The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. To do this you will need to use two different pieces of software to construct the different elements of your production. The two software packages that we use are: Adobe InDesign (used for type & layout) This is used for producing the magazine or advert layout and type. You will use it to construct your product using its powerful typography, layout tools and using your images that you create using Photoshop. InDesign is also industry standard software is used extensively by book and magazine publishers. Adobe Photoshop (used for photos & logos) This is used for editing and manipulating images. You will use it in your coursework to edit photographs you have taken or have scanned in. It is also good for producing any logos you might require for your magazine. Photoshop is industry standard piece of software and is used by most professional graphic designers, photographers and other print based media producers.
INTRODUCTION What you will learn The Photoshop and InDesign workspaces can appear extremely daunting at first. This guide is designed to help you master the techniques you will require in order to complete your Media studies coursework. In this booklet will show you how to: • Gain skills that you will be able to transfer to your final production • Be confident in the basic interface and features of the two programs • Add text to your document to produce mastheads, coverline, sell lines paragraphs and other types of formatting • Edit and manipulate your photos by removing the background and other unwanted elements • Crop your images and save them in an appropriate size & format for further use and printing You will do this by re-producing a magazine cover and double page spread using a variety of techniques. Assessment These are assessed tasks - please follow the directions for saving your work when requested. Additional Resources There are many more options, effects and techniques available should you wish to attempt something not covered in this booklet. If you have something in mind please ask the technician, or your tutor.
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Introduction In this section you are going to use Photoshop again to edit and manipulate some photographs. These will then be inserted into InDesign in the next section to complete a mock of a double page spread (shown below). All the skills you learn here will be of use when you produce your coursework. Teengirl
Special RepORT
Self harm
The silent epidemic
Dear Sugar, I have a really big problem…I have to cut my arms. When I cut, it feels as though I’m letting all the pressure out – as if I’m popping a balloon. The pain is my punishment but its also my hobby. When I my family and friends found out what I was doing I cut my legs instead. I’ve got 71 cuts on my arms and over 100 on my legs. A while ago I ended up in hospital because I was cutting went too far. While I was there I drew up plans of how I’m going to kill myself. When I came out of hospital no one tried to help me. In the end I went to see a counsellor, but I just told them I was fine and they believed me. The way things are going I wont be here much longer. Please Help Shocked by the letter you’ve just read? So were we when we received it. Sadly this is one of just hundreds Teengirl has received from desperate girls who cant stop cutting, burning or poisoning themselves. Their stories are just as shocking and upsetting as the one above. One letter even asked us to feature more longed sleeved tops in our fashion section – so girls can cover up cutting scars. The UK has the highest recorded number of self harmers in Europe and those figures are growing. Exact statistics are hard to come by because so many keep it a secret, but the experts believe the number of people who self harm has doubled since the 80s – and the majority are teenagers. Every year more than 24,000 go to hospital after harming themselves.
What Is It
One in 10 teenagers deliberatly harm themselves and figures are still on the rise. But as Teengirl discovered, at last help is at hand...
Self Harm is a mental illness where someone deliberately injures their body. This might involve cutting there skin, pulling their hair out, burning, scalding or even scratching themselves – anything that will cause them pain. Its very difficult to understand why anyone would want to do this. But sufferers feel it’s a way of coping with emotional pain by replacing them with physical hurt. They use pain to deal with how much they hate themselves and their body, or to take out their anger about things that have happened to them. It can also be a cry for help – many of the increasing number of teenagers who commit suicide have self harmed in the last year of their life. People often self harm after they have been through a traumatic experience like being bullied, abused or having a hard time at home. But it can be triggered by less obvious difficulties.
“Teens have more stress to deal with than they used to” says psychiatrist Dr Kim Kendall. “They have more exams and feel under a lot of pressure. This may be why we are seeing more and more cases of selfharm”.
“You may be ashamed of self-harming” Behind the shocking statistics, there are many more young people selfharming who no one even knows about. Sufferers are often ashamed or scared of what they are doing or may not know where to get help. Keeping self harm a secret can have dangerous consequences. For a start, sufferers aren’t actually dealing with their problems, just making things worse. Plus there’s the danger they may do some serious physical damage.
The New Rules From now on A&E departments will have people trained in mental health problems – including self-harm – on duty 24 hours a day. Anyone suspected of self-harming will get the chance to speak to them. Nurses wil also be taught more about self-harm so they can recognise if somebody has deliberately hurt themselves. Hopefully self harmers will feel that their problem is being taken seriously. They’re also more likely to get the support they need to recover. As Lucy Betterton from NICE, who are publishing the guidelines, says: “It’s important everyone works together on this. Now that GPs and A&E depts know how to spot the signs, they can make sure people who self-harm get help before its too late.” Words: C.Harris Photos: B.Moore
Hard to get help If you were one of the 150,000 people who visited A&E last year with a self-inflicted injury you could have been treated in any number of ways. Previously depending on which NHS trust area you live in and the person who treated you, you may have been given anti depressants, referred to a counsellor or even accused of wasting the hospitals time. According to NICE (National Institute Of Clinical Excellence) more than 50% of self harmers who visit A&E are discharged without any psychiatric assessment. This means they just go home and carry on hurting themselves. Part of the problem was that many medical workers didn’t really understand self harm. “There used to be an impression that people who self-harmed weren’t as important as other patients – partially in A&E departments” explains Dr Kendall. So what is being done? Next month the NHS is launching guidelines on dealing with self-harm to distribute to hospitals and healthcare workers.
“You can get help before its too late!” The idea is to make sure anyone who self-harms gets the right treatment. “The guidelines are designed to show people that the NHS sees selfharm as a real illness which needs treatment.” explains Dr Kendall. They also include new rules about how people who self-harm are treated.
You have already undertook some work in Photoshop and InDesign during the course and these tasks are both a recap and will show you some new techniques you can learn.
Coursework & Original images For your coursework you will have to produce completely original images - that is photos you have taken yourself. All your photos should be carefully considered and edited photographs and not just snaps! You must have a minimum of 4 for your final coursework.
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Task 1. Opening and Saving a file 1. Open Photoshop from the location specified on the left page. When the program has loaded you should have a screen like the one below - this is the main workspace.
Where to find Photoshop on the computers
2. Go to
File
Open
Locate the M:drive on the network
Now find the Media Folder
Open the Practical Induction Folder
Finally open the Photoshop folder
The scissors file should be inside.
This is the document you will be using in the next task.
D T P - P H OTO S H O P 3. The image should look like the image on the left hand side. During this task you will edit the scissors so they look like the image on the right.
As this is a Read Only file you need to Save it to your own area before you begin the next task. To Save this go to
File
Save As
Locate your area on the network
Give the image an appropriate name
Click Save
4. You are now ready to begin the next task.
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Task 2. Understanding Layers When creating and editing images in Photoshop you are bound to come across layers. When the image is open find the layers palette on the bottom right - it should look something like the illustration on the left hand side of the opposite page. How layers work Working with layers is similar to placing portions of a drawing on different sheets of acetate (transparent plastic). These individual sheets may be edited, repositioned and deleted without affecting the other sheets. When the sheets are stacked the entire composition is visible. 1. In the layers palette you will see that the image contains 3 layers. They are named as • scissors • red • transparent At the moment you can only see one of these, the top one, scissors. Layer Visibility Icon
2. Find the Layer Visibility icon at the side of the “scissors” layer (it looks like a open eye) and click on it - it will disappear. 3. Your image will have turned red. The scissors image has not been deleted but has just been turned off (made invisible). Now turn off the Red layer by clicking its Layer Visibility icon. 4. Your image should now have a “checkerboard” background. This is how Photoshop displays transparency. You will learn
without affecting the other sheets. When the sheets are stacked the entire composition is visible.
•edited •repositioned • deleted
In the illustration above the layers are shown how they can be viewed as 3 separate layers of paper or acetate. These individual sheets may be
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5. Turn all the icons on again. Your image should be as it was in step 1. 6. Now click on the red layer - notice that the layer becomes highlighted in blue. This means that the layer is active and is ready for editing - any changes you make to the image will effect this layer only. 7. Click and hold the red layer and drag it above the scissors layer. • The image will turn red. • This is because the red layer is now above the scissors. • Use the layer visibility icon to turn this layer off - the scissors will reappear. • Turn the red layer back on Layer Delete icon
8. Click and drag the red layer down into the Delete Layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette (it looks like a dustbin) • The red layer is deleted • It will disappear from the layers palette 9. Your layers palette should now look like this
10. Save your work.
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This is just a very brief introduction to layers - you have covered • Using layer visibility • Moving layers • Deleting layer as you progress through the booklet more options and techniques will be explained to you.
Task 3. Editing Images In this task you are going to edit the “scissors” document you used in the previous task to make the image on the right hand side of the double page spread illustrated on page ?. 1. Open the scissors document if it is not already open and find and select the Crop Tool in the toolbox. 2. With the Crop Tool selected click, hold and drag the tool across the image so you end up with and outline around the image that looks like this
Dotted line indicates the area to be cropped. The area inside the box will be retained - the darker area will be discarded.
Double click or press Enter to crop the image - it will now appear smaller.
Crop Tool
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4. You are going to select some of the grey area around the scissors and delete it. Selecting areas of an image for editing is an important part of Photoshop and there are several different ways to approach it depending on the image and situation. We will look at 2 different techniques with the 2 images you will be editing. 5. Find and select the Magic Wand tool in the toolbox. This tool is used for selecting large areas of image - particularly if it is all the same colour or tone (such as the grey on the scissors image). 6. Click on the large area of grey above the scissors. A black and white moving line should appear around the scissors. This line is often called “marching ants” because of its similarity to a line of ants moving around the edge of the image
Marching Ants
7. With the Magic Wand still selected find the Magic Wand Options at the top of the screen - it looks like this
This is where you can change options for your tool to adjust how it works. You can do this for every tool you select but the options will look different for each one (you can now begin to see how complex this program can be). 8. You may have noticed that the marching ants don’t march exactly around the edge of the image. This tool selects areas of colours and tones by matching them with other areas of a similar colour. By increasing the tolerance you can make the wand “pick up” or select more colour. 9. In the Magic Wand Options find the option for Tolerance.
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In the option box type 64 (it probably says 32 at the moment). Click on the same area again using the Magic Wand - you will see that more grey has been selected and the ants are much closer to the edge of the scissors. 10. Press the delete key on the keyboard. • The grey should be deleted. • Because the layer underneath the scissors is transparent you should see the checkerboard pattern beneath the scissors. 11. Your image should look like the one below
Transparent area revealed after being selected with magic wand and then deleted
Grey areas still to be deleted
12. Continue by deleting the areas below the handles and between the blades using the same technique. You might find that to delete the shadows in the handles and in between the blades you will have to select them instead of the grey or try adjusting the tolerance further. 13. Save your work and close it. You will come back to this file in the next task and add some effects to it. 14. Like many of the options and techniques in Photoshop there is often more than one way to do something. The Magic Wand tool is very good at selecting large areas of colour but is not very useful for
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cutting out objects that may need to be more finely selected. For this reason you are going to use a new tool, the Lasso, in conjunction Lasso Tool
with some other commands to edit another image. 15. Open the file Self Harm from the following location
M:drive on the network
Now find the Media Folder
Open the Practical Induction Folder
Find the Photoshop folder and open the Self harm image
16. The image below should open
The white area needs to be removed from the image before it cam be used in the final double page spread.
17. Find the Lasso tool in the toolbox and hold the button down to reveal more options. They should look like this
Select the Magnetic Lasso tool at the bottom of the list.
D T P - P H OTO S H O P 18. Using this tool click inside the top corner of the image - behind the girls hair. This is your start point - now do the following
Click around here to create the start point for your lasso tool
• Move the mouse slowly around the outside of the figure - a line should follow your lasso cursor • Click at different regular points around the outside of the figure - a square will appear at this point and the line will continue as you move it around • When you have got all the way around the figure, move click around the outside of the image until you get back to the start point and then double click. The line should turn into marching ants and the area has been selected • The Lasso tool is a bit tricky to get the hang off - you might find that you need to redo this step before you have a selection you are happy with. 18. As the Magnetic Lasso works with straight lines you might find the selection a bit square looking compared with the soft rounded outline of the figure. You can smooth out the selection using the Modify set of commands.
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Task 4. Manipulating Images The images have now been edited and have had the backgrounds removed. In this task you will manipulate the images by enlarging and transforming them and then adding a filter to change the overall style of the image. 1. Open the scissors file you edited in task 3. With this open go to
Image (in the Menu bar at the top)
Canvas Size
When the dialogue box appears enter the following size into the options box
Width 20cm
Height 29.7cm
And click OK. The canvas you are working on should now look something like this (you may need to use the Zoom tool to see this properly)
The canvas has been resized to be the correct size for where it needs to go in InDesign - but the main image is considerably smaller than required. You will resize this in this section.
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2. Save your work at this point 3. In the toolbox find and select the Move tool. Click and hold on the image of the scissors. If you move the mouse now you can move the image where you require on the screen. 4. It is still too small though so you will have to use the Transform command to Scale the image. In the menu bar go to
Edit
Transform
Scale
A box should have appeared around the image in a similar way to how it did when you used the Crop command (see page 45). 5. Now do the following • hold down the SHIFT key (these are the upward facing arrow keys on the right and left hand side of the keyboard) • With the Move tool still selected drag one of the corner boxes outwards (see illustration below).
Dragging any of the corner boxes with the SHIFT key pressed will enlarge the image.
• Upon releasing the mouse button the image will resize to the same size as the box
Move Tool
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6. Using this technique, resize the scissors image so that edges of the handles and blades touch the edges of the canvas. It should look something like the image below (don’t forget you may need to use the Move tool to position the image correctly)
After using Scale and Move your image should look like something approaching this.
When you are happy with the transformation press the ENTER key to apply it. 7. The next step is to turn your image black and white. To do this go to
Image
Adjust
Desaturate
8. The next step is to apply a Filter. You can think of Filters as special FX for photographs - they are extremely powerful and can alter images beyond recognition. They should be used sparingly and consistently - as with any special FX overuse can cause your work to look amateurish and cluttered. For this image you will apply a filter to make the scissors look more like a drawing rather than a photo.
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9. Go to the menu bar and select
Filter
Artistic
Poster Edges
When the dialogue box appears it should look like the one below
10. Enter the following values (you can use the on screen sliders or the keyboard) Poster Edges Filter Edge Thickness
8
Edge Intensity
5
Posterization
4
And then click the OK button. After a few seconds your scissor image should reappear with the filter applied
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11. As the image is a little on the dark side the final adjustment to be made is Brightness/Contrast. You can find this by going to
Image
Adjust
Brightness / Contrast
And then adjusting the sliders. Experiment by moving the sliders up and down to see what the difference makes to the photograph. Before you click OK though be sure to change the sliders back to Brightness/Contrast Brightness
+30
Contrast
-5
12. Save your work. The image is now complete and is ready to be used in InDesign in the construction of the double page spread. 13. Now open the other image that you worked on in the previous section (the self harm image). Using the skills you have just learnt, manipulate the image so you can use it in the double page spread you will complete in the next task. The image is the correct size so you don’t need to enlarge or reduce it. Experiment with the following • Filters - use any that you want from the list - some will be more suitable than others. • Brightness & Contrast • Image menu - also try out some of the other options from the Image menu such as Hue/Saturation, Exposure, Photo Filter and Shadow/Highlight. 14. When you are happy with your image Save your work. 15. Close Photoshop
D T P - P H OTO S H O P Now you have produced the images that you require for your double page spread you are going to bring them, and all the skills you have learnt in the previous InDesign task, together to produce a final document. The double page spread has been partially started for you so you first need to open it from the following location
M:drive on the network
Find the Media Folder
Open the Practical Induction Folder
Finally open the Indesign folder
The double page spread file should be inside
You should have a document like this. The 2 red text boxes at the side are meant to be there - you will use them later in the task. Now Save this document to your area. You are now ready to begin.
Task 1. Columns An essential part of magazine article layout is the production of columns. These make reading articles much easier than large blocks of text and nearly all magazines and newspapers use them. By combining the use of columns with images and wrapping the text around theses images you can easily and quickly produce excellent looking page layouts.
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1. The first thing you need to do is place the scissors image that you worked on in the Photoshop section of this booklet. With the double page spread document open go to
File
Place
And locate the scissors file that you created - click open when you have done this. 2. Back in the main document the Place icon should have appeared. Click where you want the image to appear. Place Icon
3. The image should now be in the document. Use the Selection tool to move this into position - it should fit in exactly half of the page. In addition to this you may find that some of your image overlaps the text that has been produced for you - use the Arrange
Selection Tool
command to send the image backwards. 4. Add a Drop Shadow to this image with the following options Scissors Drop Shadow
Rectangle Frame Tool
Opacity
75%
X Offset
5 mm
Y Offset
5 mm
Blur
7 mm
5. On the other half of the page use the Rectangle Frame tool to create a frame that is the same size as half the pink border 6. Using the Type tool double click in the frame you created in the previous step. A cursor should now be flashing in the top left of the box.
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7. This frame is now going to be separated into columns. In the Paragraph Formatting options find the columns option and click on the arrows until 4 appears. Columns Option Paragraph formatting
Columns option
8. Now the text for the article needs to be added - there is no need to type this is as you can insert text from Word documents in the same way you would an image using the Place command (as you would do for an image). Do the following • Make sure the cursor is flashing inside the text box • Go to File and Place as you have done before • Locate the Word file “self harm article” from the location listed on page 57 • Click OK. • After the dialogue box has closed the text should have appeared in columns in the document - it should look something like this
You can see that the text has appeared in columns inside the text box.
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9. You may notice that the text is very close to the illustration and title text of the left hand page, sometimes making it unreadable. To make the move away from the edge of the frame you need to use the Text Frame Options command. 10. Select the frame with the columns using the Selection tool and then go to the following
Object
Text Frame Options
And when the dialogue box opens find the Inset Spacing option and enter 3mm in all the boxes (top, bottom, left and right). Click OK when this is done (you used this same command for some of the coverlines on the front cover exercise). 11. The text will have moved away from the edges of the frame. Save your work.
Task 2. Text Wrap Text Wrap is often used with columns add add images and quotes into the body of the text. Using text wrap will make text flow around images without obscuring any text. 1. First you need to format some areas of the text. The first paragraph with starts “Dear Teengirl” and ends “Please Help” should be formatted as follows 2. In addition the headings “What is it?”, “Hard to get help” and “The new rules” should be formatted as follows (see top of next page) 3. On the right hand side of the document you should see 2 text boxes (you may have to zoom out if you cant see them). These are the boxes that need to be inserted into the columns and the text wrapped around them. They have already been formatted with
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Section Headings Font
Franklin Gothic Book
Size
10 pt
Style
Italic
Colour
Red
drop shadows and inset spacing so all you need to apply is the text wrap before dragging them into position. Note: these items have been created for you here to save time - by now you should be able to create objects like these easily. 4. You need to open up the Text Wrap dialogue box
Window
Text Wrap
You should have a palette like the one below appear 5. Select the red text box with the text “You may be ashamed...� and move it into position about a quarter of the way down the second column (check the copy of the page you have in the appendix for the exact location).
Changing these options will change the effect of the text wrap
6. You should notice that the box is above the text - obscuring some of it. With the box still selected click on the Jump Object option in the Text Wrap palette.
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TA S K 3 : W R A P P N G A RO U N D A N I M A G E 7. The text should now have “wrapped around” the object and the text is again visible 8. Repeat from step 4 with the second red box - check your copy of the final document in the appendix to see where to place it
With the Text Wrap added the box does not hide any text. The text “wraps” or “flows” neatly around the object. Note that your text now fills more of the columns as a result of this.
9. Save you’re work.
Task 3. Wrapping Text Around An Image As well as wrapping text around text boxes you can wrap text around images you have created in Photoshop. This can create some very professional looking results. 1. Finally you are going to add the self harm image that you edited in task 4 of the Photoshop section of this booklet. 2. Use the Place command to bring your edited image into the page.
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3. Obviously it looks very small compared to the rest of the image. This time we are going to use the tools in InDesign to resize and manipulate the image. 4. First we are going to add the text wrap to the image. With the image selected click on the Wrap Around Object Shape option in the Text Wrap palette.
5. Now from the drop down menu under Contour Options select Detect Edges under Type. 6. You’re image still wont look any different at this point but you may have noticed that it is the wrong way round when compared to the final page in your booklets appendix. You are going to flip it around now. 7. With the image selected, find in the formatting toolbar and locate the circular button at the right hand end - it looks like this Click on the button for a series of options - select Flip Horizontal. The image should flip over and now be facing the right way.
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TA S K 3 : W R A P P N G A RO U N D A N I M A G E 8. Using the Selection tool move the image to the bottom right hand corner of the page. It should look something like this
9. Hold down the SHIFT key and Ctrl key (you can find this underneath the SHIFT key) together and using the Selection tool click, hold and drag the top right corner of the image frame up towards the top of the document.
Drag the corner edge up and towards the top of the document. Release the keys when you get to the top.
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10. You should see that the text has wrapped around the image to the same shape - it flows neatly around the edges. Unfortunately the image is too large and some of the text is now missing. You will now need to move the image to allow all the text to be seen. 11. Using the Selection tool select the image and drag it across to the right - you will have to drag the side of it right off the document to allow all the text to become visible again. Your document should now look like this
Click, hold and drag this point inwards
12. As the image is now off the side of the page you need to crop it so it fits neatly on the page. Using the Selection tool click and hold on the point on the right hand side of the image. Now drag the image to the left until it fits the document correctly. 13. The document is now finished. Save your work in the location indicated by your teacher.
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Introduction In this section you are going to take a variety of photographs to illustrate some covers and double page spreads of music magazines. You will then need to edit them and insert them into the pages that will be given to you. Although all these images have been professionally taken by paying careful attention to your framing, shot distance and editing you should be able to produce excellent results. This task should show you how a good photograph can make your task much easier. Every one of these covers uses the same basic page elements in various arrangements (in fact it is the same cover that you constructed fro your teengirl cover in booklet #1) so you can see how simple it can be to make striking pages with simple details and good photography. Use the images as a reference when you are taking your photos and when you are editing them - there should also be large copies in all the classrooms.
Task 1. Musicmag cover 1. Decide which covers you would like to reproduce - you will need to do at least 4. 2. Look carefully at the images you have selected and look at the accompanying notes for each image on the next few pages. Read these carefully and make sure you understand them before you take you’re images. 3. Take your photos and upload them to your computer. 4. Edit them as required - some images may have more notes to help you achieve certain effects. IMPORTANT - You will need to get all your images on an A4 page. To do that go to...
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Issue #1
Issue #2
Issue #3
Issue #4
Issue #5
Issue #6
Issue #7
Issue #8
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File
New
And select A4 from the Preset options
5. Open the InDesign file that relates to the cover you are working on from the following location...
M:\Media
Practical Induction
InDesign
Music Mag cover (and then the cover number you require)
6. Save the cover to your own area and then place the image as normal behind the text. 7. You may find that you need a few attempts to get the page correct - don’t forget you can also move the type and other page elements to fit. 8. Your teacher may require you to hand in the work you have produced for assessment. Please follow the instructions they give you to do this.
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Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera directly in front of model.
Left hand side - try to get the dramatic lighting on the cap.
• Cut out background. • Add colour background. • Add drop shadow.
Careful to crop the models arm on the right hand side.
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Cover #2
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Close up (see appendix for shot types). • Camera directly in front of model.
Natural - try taking image outside on a bright day.
None - although you may want to play around with Brightness/Contrast and Levels to make it a bit more dramatic.
When taking the photo try to keep the background as simple and uncluttered as possible.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S Cover #3
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera directly in front of model.
Left hand side - look at the shadow she is casting on the background.
None - although you may want to play around with Brightness/Contrast and Levels to make it a bit more dramatic.
Correct cropping is vital - look at where the models arms are placed.
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Cover #4
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). Shot type
• Camera slightly above model (stand on a chair or use a tripod).
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
Bright - try a light in front of the model.
• Cut out background (or use a white background to photograph on). • Adjust levels for a brighter look.
The models pose is excellent - try to mimic this as much as you can.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S Cover #5
• Medium close up (see appendix for shot types). Shot type
• Camera slightly below model (kneel below model or sit on a chair).
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
From above - try putting the light very high on the stand.
• Cut out background (or use a white background to photograph on). • Adjust levels for a brighter look.
The models pose is excellent - try to mimic this as much as you can.
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Cover #6
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). Shot type
• Camera below models (kneel below model or sit on ground).
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Natural - this shot would work really well taken outside with a building in the background.
• Adjust levels for a darker look. •Use Brightness/Contrast make it a bit more dramatic.
The models pose is excellent - try to mimic this as much as Hints
you can. The placing of the window frame and building is also key to this images success.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S Cover #7
Shot type
• Long shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera directly in front of model.
Left hand side - if you can take the image against a white Lighting
background then you will find this image much easier to edit.
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Cut out the figure from the background if you need to. • Adjust levels for a lighter look.
The framing of this image is very important - you must have the model on the right hand side of the page.
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Cover #8
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera directly in front of model.
A simple background is required with lighting coming from the left.
How do you get her head to appear in front of the masthead? Try using 2 layers and save 2 different documents!
The framing of this shot is very important - look where the models arms are and where she is in the frame.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S Task 2. Musicmag double page spreads 1. Decide which spreads you would like to reproduce - you will need to do at least 4. 2. Look carefully at the images you have selected and look at the accompanying notes for each image on the next few pages. Read these carefully and make sure you understand them before you take you’re images. 3. Take your photos and upload them to your computer. 4. Edit them as required - some images may have more notes to help you achieve certain effects. IMPORTANT - You will need to get all your images on an A4 page. To do that go to...
File
New
And select A4 from the Preset options
5. Open the InDesign file that realates to the cover you are working on from the following location...
M:\Media
Practical Induction
InDesign
Music Mag DPS (and then the cover number you require)
6. Save the spread to your own area and then place the image as normal behind the text. 7. You may find that you need a few attempts to get the page correct - don’t forget you can also move the type and other page elements to fit.
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Issue #2
Issue #3
Issue #4
Issue #5
Issue #6
Issue #7
Issue #8
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S
• Medium long shot (see appendix for shot types) Shot type
• Camera on floor or surface. • This will be impossible to do in water but try to recreate the shot on a table edge or something similar.
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
Natural - would be a good shot to do outside.
Very little - you will need to crop the image and add a colour background (like the right hand side of the spread) in order for it to look correct.
Make sure you leave lots of space above your models heads - the image works well because of this space.
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DPS #2
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Long shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera at waist height - use a tripod.
Right hand side - experiment with how the light looks at different heights.
Very little, but good cropping of the image so the figures are squeezed into the frame will make it successful.
The models poses need to be correct and you will need to find several props (tables etc) to make this work.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S DPS #3
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Medium shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera slightly above model.
Right hand side - experiment with how the light looks at different heights.
Very little, but you will need to either photograph the model on a white background or cut the figure out and insert on a white background.
This is a great pose - try to make sure that you frame and crop the image correctly.
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DPS #4
Shot type
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
• Medium long shot (see appendix for shot types). • Camera slightly below models.
Natural - would be best to take this image outside.
You will need to make sure that the right hand side of the image does not obscure any text behind it - you can use the blur tool or filter in Photoshop to do this.
This is a great pose - try to make sure that you frame and crop the image correctly.
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S DPS #5
• Medium long shot (see appendix for shot types) Shot type
• Camera below models looking up - try to find something that the models could stand on.
Lighting
Photoshop editing
Hints
Natural - would be best to take this image outside.
You will need to make sure that the right hand side of the image does not obscure any text behind it - this example has simply blacked out half of the page.
This is a great pose - try to make sure that you frame and crop the image correctly.
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DPS #6
• Medium close up (see appendix for shot types) Shot type
• The subjects are looking directly into the camera fro full dramatic effect.
Lighting
Natural - would be best to take this image outside with strong sunlight to get the dramatic shadows.
• Make Black and White. Photoshop editing
• Adjust Levels to darken the shadows. • Use brightness and contrast to make the image more dramatic.
Hints
This photo was actually taken in Birmingham!
P H OTO S H O P - TA K I N G P H OTO S DPS #7
• Extreme close up (see appendix for shot types) Shot type
• The subject is looking directly into the camera fro full dramatic effect.
Lighting
Left hand side.
• Make Black and White. Photoshop editing
• Add a photo filter by going to Image, Adjust and photo filter. Use brightness and contrast to make the image more dramatic. The text has had some blending modes applied to it in
Hints
InDesign. This has allowed some of the image to be seen through the text.
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DPS #8
Shot type
Medium shot (see appendix for shot types).
Lighting
Right hand side.
• Use brightness and contrast to make the image more Photoshop editing
dramatic. • You could also try using the Levels to make the colours stronger.
Hints
The models pose is essential to get right - look carefully at the cropping and expressions.
A ppendix Appendix
Shot Types.......................................................................................... 62 Visual descriptions of shot types used in photography
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Big Close Up (BCU)
Close Up (CU)
Extreme Close Up (ECU)
Medium Long Shot (MLS)
Medium Shot (MS)
Medium Close Up (MCU)
Long Shot (LS)
Extreme Long Shot (ELS)
Moving Subject (MOV)
High Angle (HA)
Low Angle (LA)
Over Shoulder (OS)
Two Shot (TS)
Tilted Frame
Examples of shots used in photography and video/film making.