During today's lesson, I made the finishing touches to my 'Customise Your Clothes' DPS. I finished off this DPS by adding in the images that I had previously taken. Once I had finished doing this, I created a small breakout box for my 'Tips and Tricks'.
I think that this DPS has worked well overall as it has all the required componants, is eye catching, and is interesting. If I could recreate this DPS, I would possibly use different imagery and would also allow myself more time for making the clothes.

'Customise Your Clothes' DPS imagery

During today's lesson, I spent some time editing the images that I had taken for my 'Customise Your Clothes' DPS. I began this process by cropping my images. I then went onto altering the brightness and contrast where necessary. With this DPS being about creating DIY garments, I wanted the DPS itself to look quite home made and therefore didn't want to make all the pictures have white backgrounds. This is why some of the images still have their original backgrounds.

Contents Page Production #2

Today, I completed my contents page design. I selected 3 images from my various photoshoots to put on the contents page. I have chosen these images as they represent their articles well and also look interesting and will hopefully make the reader want to read the articles that go with them. I have also chosen these images because they fit in nicely with the colour scheme that is featured on this page.
Overall, I think that my contents page has worked well as it is clear and easy to read but at the same time is decorative and exciting.

'Say It With Nails' DPS Production #2

Today I completed my Say It with Nails DPS. I began this session by creating a breakout box for my 'Tips and Tricks' section. I chose to use a writing paper background for this breakout box as I thought that this would look effective and seeing as the pattern is also used on some of my other pages, it would help to unite the pages. I then created a breakout box for my 'We Recommend' section.
Overall, I am happy with how my DPS has turned out and I luckily didn't have any problems during production.

Project Monitoring; Week 5

During this week, I focused mainly on the development of my ‘Say It with Nails’ DPS. I began this week by doing the photo shoot for the DPS. I felt that this went well and the images that I produced were usable and were easy to edit.

I then went onto beginning the creation of my pages. I started this process by working out the dimensions of my pages. I then began to map out where everything needed to go on my pages for example, the text, images, header, ect. After doing this, I chose a background and then began to insert the various components of my DPS.

The creation of my Say It with Nails DPS has taken quite a while. I think that this is because the imagery took quite a while to edit and also because the layout of this DPS is quite complex. However, I have spent a lot of my spare time working on this DPS this week and therefore, do not feel that I am behind.

I feel that my InDesign skills are developing and improving each week as I get more and more used to working with the programme. I am happy with the progress that I am making and I think that my DPS is coming together nicely.

'Say It with Nails' DPS Production

I began the creation of my DPS by measuring the diamentions of the pages. I then worked out where all the various componants of my DPS would go. After doing this, I inserted my previously made header along with a polka dot background. I chose this pattern for my background because I thought that it would compliment the other colours and patterns in the DPS nicely. I then began to add my pieces of text. The fonts that I have used for these pages are Windsor Hand, Prestiege Elite STD, Calibri, and Times New Roman. I have chosen to use Windsor Hand because it is a very stylish font and as it is used on every page of my magazine, it works well at uniting my pages. I chose to use the other three fonts as they are easy to read and work well.

The next step was adding my previously edited imagery. This stage took the longest as sizing the images and positioning them took longer than I had expected. Never the less, I think that they worked well in the DPS.

'Say It with Nails' Edit imagery

I spent this lesson editing the images that I took for my 'Say It with Nails' DPS in Photoshop. I began by taking the dodge tool and choosing the 'midtones' setting then rubbing out the backgrounds of my images. I then selected the 'highlights' mode and went over them again to lighten them even more. I then altered the brightness/contrast where necessary. On some of the pictures, excess nail varnish had been left on the fingers. So, I took the clone stamp tool and removed these imperfections. I finished this process by cropping some of the images