Original Image
Within my research, a lot of the music magazines had flush white tinted backgrounds. However, as I didn't have the large amounts of money that photographers and magazines have, I decided to try and get by with white/creme wallpaper. Already you can really see how great it has worked for this specific image; there are just sections that need touching up.
Step 1 - Erasing Creases, Black & White Background & Extend The Image
As I'd mounted large sheets of wallpaper parallel to each other, there was long deep lines that repeated throughout the background. To remove this, I used the cloning and blending tool which took other sections from the background and then blended it in with the creases so that they disappeared. After this i extended the right hand side of the image by taking a sample a stretching across the page so that the whole image was a similar size to what a double page spread is. Instantly, the background was starting to look quite professional, very much like the ones featured in the reviewed music magazines. The final step which completed this stage of editing was the black and white overlay. As I wanted a few different coloured tones within the image, I used the magic wand tool and highlighted the pink-coloured sections which are on the artists dress. Then after this, I inverted the selected areas and the applied a black and white overlay onto the rest of the image.
Step 2 - Enlightening The Artists Skin
When looked at closely, the skin texture of the model looked dark and grungy because of how the lighting was when I took the image. To rectify this error, I simply brightened the images using the brightness/contrast settings. However once I did this I noticed that some of the grungy areas in the background faded out which was quite disheartening as I really liked the texture of it.
Step 3 - Darker-textured Background
This next step was to have the best of both worlds within the image; having bright and soft looking skin with a grungy-textured background. I duplicated the the image layer so that I had two. The two types of dark and bright settings which I applied to the image in previous steps was then repeated onto both of the new layers. All that was left to do after this was to use the eraser tool and simply erase the dark sectioned layer which lurked over the artist so the bright layer came through.
Step 4 - Adding In Butterfly
I downloaded a brush folder set off the internet which contained a variety of pre-designed butterfly brushes. This saved me a lot of time as compared to me spending ages creating my own butterfly. I added in the chosen butterfly in a jet black colour which was also slanted at an angle.
Step 4 - Pink Bokeh Light Effect
As I wanted to maintain more of a house style feel through-out my music magazine, I thought it would only be right to continue using the same light, pink tone. I did this using the downloaded brush pallet linked below.
Brush # 546
Step 5 - Headline/Title
Rather then using the same size of font for each word, I decided to use different sizes; something I've seen occur within magazines quite often. I used Myriad Pro as i find thought the majority of the fonts that I had where very sharp in style and shape.
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