Week 3 Monitoring

This week I mainly focused on getting my first DPS, and Front cover finish. I successfully did this as they are all completed and now I am just working on my final DPS and next week I will get started on my Contents page. I successfully completed my homework for this week which was research into some fitness magazines in the industry and collect research together so i can base my double page spreads off. I found a front cover that I would base mine off. Here is the image:

Throughout the production of my front cover, I played around with the images that i took in the studio. THese images were of my model, joe, who was posing with his arms crossed. In photoshop, i played around with various features to try and produce the best effects possible that i would use on my image. I ended up using the dodge and burn tool, curves, and gradient maps to make joe look more enhanced, and to add more colour to his face and body. Here are the before and after images:

BEFORE

AFTER 

I think my product didn't turn out as well as it should have, and this is simply because of how many plain gaps I left in my product. I also think the sizing of my sell lines was a bit bad simply because some were well sized, and others looked very small in comparison.

Here is the final image of my front cover