Magazine - Designs and Image Manipulation

Main design / effects within magazine.

To get effect in my magazine for different boxes included throughout, I inserted a white rectangle and then used the fx effects to make it more unique and appealing. 

The first effect that I used was the colour fill that I used to make boxes a grey / silver colour.

I used a normal blend mode, scheme colour 9, opacity on 36. 

I then used the Inner glow effect to give boxes the silver / fade effect. The result shown below is what I have used throughout my magazine to create the colour scheme that I wanted. 

Blend mode normal, Opacity 100, Blur 69pt, Intensity 9, Colour - black, Edge. 

Front Cover photo:

To get the result of my front cover photo, I used the cutout studio on the photo I planned to use. This allowed me to get rid of the unnecessary background from the photo and allow for my main artist look more natural on the page. If I didn't remove the background from the original photo then it would've left a white box around him that would stand out on the page, not looking professionally made. 

Here is a screenshot from the cutout studio, where I have selected the areas of the photo that I wanted to keep (The artist and the guitar) 

After I removed the background from the photo, I used the PhotoLab to apply a black and white filter / effect to work better with my black and white house style. Then I used the fx tool to apply a drop shadow the photo. Below is the finished result of my main cover photo.