The Making of the Music Magazine Double Page Spread

As with the cover and contents, the double page spread was created with Adobe Photoshop CS6.
I began with an image and cropped out a house in the background, as that didn't give off the image I was going for in the photo. As a result of this I had to remove the sky from the image too. I then took a filtered copy of the image and erased most of it, leaving just the grass and parts of the plant in the background, as it created a shadow effect. I then created another copy and cropped out the models in the photo. I then added subtle stroke, inner glow and drop shadow effects to make them stand out against the rest of the image.

The blank edges of the image now seemed unnatural, so I added a rectangle behind (which is in the layers bar on the screenshot above) to make an artificial clear sky. I also added a simple title, "Meet the Blue Vines", in order to introduce the band.

At this point I decided I would add in a topic sentence to help introduce the article, as it is a Q&A styled interview, the sentence helps ease readers into the Q&A. I also decided I would use the quote "We just want to watch the world burn".

At this point, all I had left to add was the actual article itself. I put the text onto the background and decided that the questions should be a different colour from the answers. I also made sure that the text would be legible by adding a black rectangle behind the text and reducing its opacity to 15%, so that it only just masked the picture enough to leave the text legible.