Project Monitoring 23.01.13

During this week of production, I have managed to ensure that I have, indeed, been editing my images, just as I said I would. This meant that I took the images taken from the previous week and have then edited them to ensure the saturation and the darkness and even the sharpness was up-to-scratch. However, upon editing this image, I have discovered that - while the image is good in terms of modelling and positioning - it seems to be of a slightly low aesthetic quality. In addition to this, the model was slightly too far to one side of the image, which unfortunately meant that I would not have a good amount of room to palace my sell-lines. With this in mind, I changed my image to different one that granted me with more space for my sell-lines. As it turns out, this was a very good decision, despite having to discard all the progress I had made, because the image was actually far better in terms of quality and positioning than the last.

After this had been done, I had a sudden change of heart and decided that what would really allow me to produce a high-quality front cover would be if a disregarded my own urges to put unique spins on the front cover and just kept to a rather simple structure, much like that on other magazine front covers.
Thus, I have now decided to limit the diversity of my colour palette along with my font selection. This would mean that, while I wasn't particularly doing what I felt was right, I was instead making decision and sacrifices that would ultimately benefit my product. I knew that this time, I could not risk to completely reject magazine conventions.

There are a few things in my schedule that I have not followed precisely, such as editing other images with my front cover image. This is because I felt that I did not have the time to do so.
This week, therefore, has been very important for me because I have learned something that I was previously blind to - that I must comply with requirements, expectations and conventions in order to create a good-quality magazine. During my photoshoot, I again needed to make sacrifices such as the colour of my back-drop - I initially wanted grey, though red was the only colour I could use. This, however, resulted with better images because my blue quill on the red back-drop resulted a colour vibrancy. My narrow lighting exists in my images, though isn't as strong as I'd have liked. Because of this colour vibrancy, I was then made to change font colours. The blue was far more intense than what  my treatment foretold and I actually found it rather disagreeable. Though it's powerful none-the-less because there is a limited colour palette and so there is a larger degree of control. I admit that my problem over time has been that I tended to let designs get out of control, though I have already learned something very valuable.

Finally, I actually learned a very valuable technique where I took the pen tool and draw around the top of my model's head and then created a new layer by copying this section. I placed my masthead behind this new layer and managed to obstruct the masthead. This is very much similar to the design of other modern magazines and I am very proud of how I have managed to do this as I had never really considered doing so before.

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