Erasing Background

Before & After Removing Background

I used Pixlr to edit my photos, by erasing the background. This was because I wanted to try and include a plain colour background just like the 'Indie' fashion magazine. I tried to cut the background of the photo on the left but, I felt that it was very hard to cut round all of the shadows, her hair, as well as her clothing.

I felt as if the idea was very hard as cutting out the background took a long time & you needed a very steady hand. As it didn't really work when I added colour, I tried to outline around my model again as it looked very uneven and photo shopped, which wasn't the look that I was looking for. I was very disappointed that it didn't work first time as I really felt that the finished piece would have looked really good & engaged really well with my target audience.

Even though my first idea didn't end the way that I wanted to, this then made me inspired to attempt to make my front cover look more like a magazine. This was because I didn't want my target audience buying my magazine thinking that it is a fashion magazine instead of a music magazine. This is going to be really hard as my photo shoot didn't include any sort of musical instrument.

I wanted to attempt to make a magazine quite like this layout, I removed my background of my photo then added a plain filled colour just like this yellow. I feel like for this to have worked, I needed to use a green screen instead of using the program called Pixlr to remove the background by using the eraser tool. 



After I completed erasing all of the background, I attemped to add some sort of coloured background, the photo looked really photo shopped and just didnt really turn out like the way that I wanted it to look. I thought it was going to work at first but unfortunately it didn't in the end.

After it didn't work out the way that I wanted it to, I had to act quickly and think of a different idea to use instead of my original idea. 
I really liked the use of little amount of text on the front page of this magazine to the left but, after comparing it to music magazines, it doesnt suit the sort of style that is set to identify that it is a music magazine and not a fashion magazine.