The Making Of...... Magazine Advert.

Here is a step by step guide to how we produced the magazine advert in Photoshop.

This first image is our original image just de-saturated to make it look dark and gloomy, as we took the photo at day, we had to make it look like it was at night, and by de-saturating it it's the first step to making it look like it's at night.

In this second picture we added some colour to the picture, as at night there is still colour so we did that to make it more realistic. We also added the lights, again to make it more realistic, and it also looks really good next to the sky.

The next step was to add all the information to the advert, the name of the artist, the date of release, the ways of getting the album, the artist's website and the record label logo. These are all things which are usually seen on a magazine advert. Despite all this information you will notice that the name of the song is currently not on the magazine advert, but that comes onto the advert in the next step. We also added in the MTV logo next to the record label, we did this as we had it on the music video and it would be a good idea to have on the advert. We also included a picture of the digipak, so people know what the digipak will look like when it is released.

Now the name of the song is is visible, it was my idea to have a cloud appear from the artist's head, to appear he is day dreaming because it is a theme of the song. This is the last step in the making of the magazine advert. A separate post will be up in a few minuets of the finished magazine advert on it's own.