Digital Media 2019-2021 James Murphy

         These magazines are all made by the producer Kerrang!. This is a music magazine which fits into the more metal / rocky music genre and category of magazines. They tell you about the latest news that has came out last week from the top music brands such as the guitar manufactureres, Gibson and Fender etc. or about the hot news of the world's biggest rock bands or even new bands that are on the rise.  All of these magazine covers consist of people who are a significant role model in the music industry. The first being David Grohl of Foo Fighters, which is the big band that is globally known for songs such as Moneky Wrench or Everlong. The interview is about David Grohl and 'How he got his Groove back' and how he picked the guitar up to form the band Foo Fighters after being the drummer of the grunge band, Nirvana. The fact they have included Foo Fighters in big white letters on a black background, on top of the image of Groh...

Here, we done a fire effect with my surname in Photoshop. This was done by typing in my surname, Murphy, in four different colours - Black, Red, Yellow and Orange. I then chose a colour to add a flame effect onto it. I only selected any of the red, yellow or orange as they are the colours in which show the fire. With one of those selected, I go onto 'Filter' on the top bar of Photoshop, and chose 'Liquify'. Instead of clicking places, you can simply use the shortcut 'SHIFT + CTRL + X'. That then brings you to a screen which allows you to shape the layer you was on, and drag it out different ways. You done this with all the colour with exception of the black. To get the shine/reflection underneath the word you have typed. you simply duplicate the layer by simply right clicking on the merged layers of the liquefied red, yellow and orange along with the un-liquefied black, and press duplicate. This can be shortened again by clicking on th...

To do a feather in Photoshop looks good. So the the way to do it is simply get your picture or subject you want feathered and select your marquee tool by pressing M or selecting the second top icon of the tool bar. Once selected, you will see something called feather, usually at 0px. Before you make your selection, you want to increase that number to whatever you like. Here I have done 25px. When you select around the subject with the Marquee or Lasso tool, press CTRL+SHIFT+I or Select > Select Inverse and then you will be left with your subject with a fading to transparent outline like so above... Here is the Montage I created using the feather effect: For this, I have made a collage / montage of different fashion and people who are in the modeling and fashion business. You can see I have done the feathers and made things have a lower opacity and different sizes so you can see other pictures through another picture and fit more on giving the collage effect.

I recently got asked through friends by Broughton Hall Spanish teacher to create a poster promoting their Pyjama Party donations for Christmas 2019. I said I would as it is what I enjoy to do!  To the teachers who see this, if you hear of any posters being made or if anything needs promoting, I will do it! 

JULIAN OPIE INSPIRED GRAPHIC DESIGN "OUT AND ABOUT" This is an image in which I created. I got numerous pictures / images of Julian Opie's graphics work, which consisted of many objects such as long, lanky, skinny figures minding their own business doing that they usually do, which we would see in our everyday lives when we go out with friends or family, hence why I named it "Out and About".  I selected different single images of figures and copied them on different layers each, colour filling them differently than the original pictures and then brought them all together creating one image.  I done this as part of research for one of my graphic design artists in my graphic design cour se.

This is what Levels on Photoshop does. It simply brings the contrast up and down and the brightness up and down as well. The Higher the number, the brighter it gets , the lower the number, the darker and more contrast there is. With levels, you can make things to have a chrome effect or a shiny plastic effect. I have done this with other things. You just have to play with the levels and colours and you will have that effect.

This picture, I have used the Photo filter and chosen the filter Cooling Filter (82).  It makes the image have a cooler feel to it and gives the image the effect that it is live as the cooling effect gives the effect that the lights for the stage are beaming down at him whilst he performs.  I personally like this filter as it gives the live feel of the image and brings it to life, and i can personally hear a guitar being played in my head because it looks like it is being played live.  I also done the warming filter. For this, I chose a picture of an autumn setting. This is because the warming filter brings over an orange tint over the image giving the warm ascetic feel.  Again, I personally like the feel it brings it. Such as how it makes you cosy and brings a comfortable feel towards you.  These images both bring different vibes and obviously look different, however in a way do the same thing by bringing a vibe to you by sim...