Title Evaluation

To create my title and to make it perfect it did take some work on photoshop. I put this cropped alpha wave into photoshop.

I adjusted the size of the image, holding down 'shift' key  whilst the image was selected on 'free transform'. This prevents me from adjusting the pixels and squashing the image. I clicked the arrow to place the image and ensured to have a black background to see what i was doing more clearly. 

I then made a copy of what was on photoshop by 'selecting all', 'edit- copy', 'edit -paste'. This creates a new layer. I did this so i could directly edit the image. Using the 'magic wand' tool I then selected  the background of 'Layer 1' and clicked delete,to get rid of the white background and so i was just left with the red waves. I felt the lines were too harsh, i used the 'refine edge' option and smoothed out any harsh or pixelated areas. This gave me a much cleaner, neater wave.

I needed to change the colour of my wave, I wanted it to be black so it would apply to the rest of my front cover. I did this by clicking the 'color overlay' option and selecting the 'solid fill' colour as 'black'.

I wanted to make the title stand out more as it was not visible on my cover as my cover background is black too. After researching and watching some youtube tutorials I came across the option of selecting an 'outer glow'. This created an outline that was easily adjustable and not as bold. It's opacity was something I could experience with. By selecting the ' outer glow tool' I chose the colour grey to have around the black wave. This made the title more interesting, more visually appealing. The outer glow opacity and colour is something I experimented with and changed quite frequently in order to find the perfect match for my front cover. Choosing a grey 'outer glow' allowed me to then incorporate grey fonts into my front cover as well. 

This was the final outcome: I was pleased and happy with this outcome. I received the opinions of friends aswell as family whom agreed with me. 

Using the text-box tool I then added text over the grey wave. I wrote down 'SANITY' using the 'Niagara Solid Regular' font and chose the font 'size 160'. I felt this was slightly small, so I then selected the 'free transform' tool and expanded the text. Again holding down the 'Shift' key to prevent the text from stretching out.This was to make sure the title stood out and captured the attention of the target audience. Also after researching other magazines within my genre of Indie Pop/ PBR&B,I realised  that the titles were usually quite large too therefore I decided to adapt this technique for my magazine too to help appeal and allow easy memorisation of the magazine and raise the chances of it being recognised by the target audience and those whom may find the magazine interesting.  

I then saved this in the 'JPEG format' and cropped the title.This was then copied out onto my front cover window. The cropped title was saved as an image and then added onto the window where I was editing my front cover. I used the 'free transform' tool once again to adjust the size of the image to fit the screen and fill in the space on my front cover. I also used the 'brush tool' in a very small size, using the colour 'black' to smudge out and rough edges around the title to help blend it in properly.