Twiggy
When I was first researching about Twiggy I wanted to re-create a Rolling Stones magazine with an image of her on the front cover surrounded by things she's done (i.e.release a single, create a clothing line etc...) When it came round to doing the image I chose a different one to the one below although I then had to change it to the one I have now as I couldn't find a way of making an effective magazine cover due to how dark the image was. I also realised that instead of re-creating a Rolling Stones cover I could make a cover with the title of her magazine on it.
The image I choose to incorporate has been extracted from:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4x_4C5sE_XCSWP27k8ar-otH0zbYaT-d5Dg_21nCsmIsSq5wQmKlqT427gwrEotTHjqNWLwydQsna9M0yCa5RKDuF66c5-nFJB2UIT9Ue1e-Ql9-GamaA2QSXubb-K5fBFdATPgIgQ6X/s1600/0bf9a771245e_104841465.jpg
Steps I took to create my image
I opened the image in Photoshop and I selected the drop down menu of the heading Layers, I choose duplicate layer so that I wouldn't have to work on the original image. I then clicked on the eye beside the original layer on the layers tab so that it would disappear. Even though my image is mainly black and white I decide to add colour to her eyes as thats one of the features that made her famous. Using the Lasso tool I drew around one eye and then I pressed the Shift button as I selected the other so that both circles that I had drawn were selected. I then pressed the Alt button and drew around both pupils so that they wouldn't change colour. Now that I had selected what I wanted I selected two shades of blue #2aadf2 and #25bde9.
I clicked on Adjustment Layer and selected Colourise:
Hue: 201
Saturation: 22
Lightness: -9
I hadn't selected some sections of the eyes properly so after I coloured them in with the Hue and Saturation I used the Eyedropper tool to select the right shade of blue. I selected the Paint Brush tool and went over the areas which i had missed out.
Final Image
I chose to have a simple magazine cover with one image as many of the good quality photos of Twiggy at a young age were very similar in colours etc... I only added colour to her eyes as they are one of the features which made her such a famous model back in the 60's and it was a form of adding some colour instead of just having the whole image black and white. I named the magazine cover after her own magazine, I chose the font style Handwriting- Dakota as it was simple but at the same time looked like someones handwriting. These are the sorts of fonts you would find in teenager magazines which is also why I chose it as she had a huge influence on teenagers. The colour red with the drop shadow makes the text stand out from the image but at the same time doesn't distract the viewer from the actual photograph.
When I was first researching about Twiggy I wanted to re-create a Rolling Stones magazine with an image of her on the front cover surrounded by things she's done (i.e.release a single, create a clothing line etc...) When it came round to doing the image I chose a different one to the one below although I then had to change it to the one I have now as I couldn't find a way of making an effective magazine cover due to how dark the image was. I also realised that instead of re-creating a Rolling Stones cover I could make a cover with the title of her magazine on it.
The image I choose to incorporate has been extracted from:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4x_4C5sE_XCSWP27k8ar-otH0zbYaT-d5Dg_21nCsmIsSq5wQmKlqT427gwrEotTHjqNWLwydQsna9M0yCa5RKDuF66c5-nFJB2UIT9Ue1e-Ql9-GamaA2QSXubb-K5fBFdATPgIgQ6X/s1600/0bf9a771245e_104841465.jpg
Steps I took to create my image
I opened the image in Photoshop and I selected the drop down menu of the heading Layers, I choose duplicate layer so that I wouldn't have to work on the original image. I then clicked on the eye beside the original layer on the layers tab so that it would disappear. Even though my image is mainly black and white I decide to add colour to her eyes as thats one of the features that made her famous. Using the Lasso tool I drew around one eye and then I pressed the Shift button as I selected the other so that both circles that I had drawn were selected. I then pressed the Alt button and drew around both pupils so that they wouldn't change colour. Now that I had selected what I wanted I selected two shades of blue #2aadf2 and #25bde9.
I clicked on Adjustment Layer and selected Colourise:
Hue: 201
Saturation: 22
Lightness: -9
I hadn't selected some sections of the eyes properly so after I coloured them in with the Hue and Saturation I used the Eyedropper tool to select the right shade of blue. I selected the Paint Brush tool and went over the areas which i had missed out.
I then created a new layer since I wanted to add text I selected the Text Box and drew a rectangle at the top of the page. In this box I entered the title with the font style Hand-writing Dakota and font colour #fa0707. I also repeated the same process for the subheading although I chose a smaller font size of 36pt.
Final Image
I chose to have a simple magazine cover with one image as many of the good quality photos of Twiggy at a young age were very similar in colours etc... I only added colour to her eyes as they are one of the features which made her such a famous model back in the 60's and it was a form of adding some colour instead of just having the whole image black and white. I named the magazine cover after her own magazine, I chose the font style Handwriting- Dakota as it was simple but at the same time looked like someones handwriting. These are the sorts of fonts you would find in teenager magazines which is also why I chose it as she had a huge influence on teenagers. The colour red with the drop shadow makes the text stand out from the image but at the same time doesn't distract the viewer from the actual photograph.
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