Mini Magazine

PENTAX MINI MAG Editorial Design

By Ross Sinclair

This was just an idea that I did not use , my skills were not good enough for what I had in mind , I wanted to design a kind of x-ray piece , I have set this as my goal for the end of 2013 . I made this with the shape tools.

Step 1 I opened a new document size widt 16.537inches and hight 4 inches . I then filled the background in black .

Step 2 Using the line tool width 5px color red I made a boarder around the document and cut it into four sections to seperate each part .

Step 3 I playced this image of the world into the doucument .

Step 4 I duplicated the image and deleted the top section with the eliptical marqueetool . I then filled the shape in white and tunred the opacity down to 30 percent.

Step 5 Using the eliptical marquee tool on a new layer I made the circular shape rulers for guide’s and filled the area in blue , then turning the opacity down to suit.

Step 6 I repeated step 5 with a slightly lighter shade of blue and turned the opacit down to suit

Step 7 I I repeated steps 5 and 6 but made a slightly smaller circel in a white shade and turned the opacity down to 40 percent

Step 10 I then too adigital image from pentax camera and cut out the lens and pasted it , deleting the original layer .

Step 12 I took this image of a Pentax camera from the web and playced it in the document.

Step 8 Using the magic wand tool I selected the red sections and pasted it over the circular shapes in a new layer .

Step 11 I pasted the picture of the world into the lens and resized it to fit .

Step 13 I fited the image of the word and lens into the lens of the camera

Step 14 I downloaded a a set of blue print technical brush’s .

I used this brush for the background , you can barley make it out as the opacity is down to 33 percent .

Step 16 I added white shape with a brush in color white . I then typed the Pantex color red , font arial black as this is the exact same as their logo.

Step 15 I added some more shapes with the brush tool but this time in red .

Step 17 I then brought the image into Indesign and typed the text into area where I wanted . For the font I used Ayuthaya in a cream color size 6.

Step 1 Page 2 The first thing i did was use a blue print brush ,red color fd0101 over the the black background .

Step 2 I then added a few more brush marks to make it look technical . I used the same shade red and lowered the opacity to 33%.

Step 3 I cut out this image of a pentax camera and placed it in the document , shrinking it down to fit .

Step 4 I used another brush with the same color red as previous .

Step 5 I added a few more brush shapes one with a cream color .

I then brought the image into Indesign and typed the text into area where I wanted . For the font I used Ayuthaya in a cream color size 6.

Page 3 Step 1 I added the same background as before but with a blue color and opacity 37%.

Step 3 I added more technical brush effects with a slightly lighter color so to stand out more .

Step 5 Last of all i added a image of a blue pantex camera as i wanted to stick with the theme of blue .

Step 2 I added some tecnical brushes in the same color blue .

Step 4 I continued to add more brush’s with in mind a large brush for the heading to go over it .

Step 6 I then brought the image into Indesign and typed the text in a cream color useing the font Ayuthaya in size 6.

Page 4 I typed Pantax color red with font Arial Black size 60 pt.

Step 2 : I cropped the image and inlarged it so to fit across the document .

Step 3 I filled in the eye section blur and turned the opacity down to 30 %.

Front and back page. Step 1 I took this image off the internet as i thought it was quite eye catching .

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