final product front cover, what I did

Here is my final front cover to achieve this final product.

To achieve this final product i had to do various things, obvious tools that i used include the use of the shape making tool to create the boxes which surround various parts of my text. as well as this i had to use other tools such as the clone tool this was used on the models ears/boxes due to me having to make it with tape and paper some of the lines of the paper showed up as well as light reflecting off the tape itself on the boxes.

As well as this i had to use the clone tool due to the framing of my pictures being slightly off with the top 1/6th having to be made as you might be able to see with the colour of the background changing rapidly under the C of connection, as well as the top this was done on on the right hand side which can be slightly seen. Firstly I copied the top are and the left hand side area to create new blocks which would fill in the cover the way i needed and allow the framing to be correct i then used the blending tool so it would have the different lighting and look like it was just copy and pasted sections.

For the fonts I used I acquired them off the website Dafont.com, looking specifically at the electronic and tech styled fonts due to my magazine being a technology based one, to install these fonts I had to first download them and then upload them to the computer, Sadly fonts are saved to the actual drive of the computer this I could only use these fonts on the pc i originally installed them on or i would have to reinstall them onto a different pc.

As well as using the shape tool I also used some of the fx to create effects for example with the black bar at the bottom I created an overlaying shadow in FX I also created a drop shadow for the sticker which i have in the top right corner.

final product

Above is my final product with the picture above being my final front cover and the two images below being my dps. 

Aperture and how it effects focusing

Aperture is the term given to the blades within a lens which can be made smaller or larger, this not only changes the depth of field (a shallow or deep depth) but also the amount of light which goes through the lens.
Aperture besides being used to adjust the amount of light that goes through the camera it is also used to change the depth of field, but what is depth of field?

firstly depth of field has to do with the focus of the background, for example if you look at the top image in comparison to the bottom image, the background of the top image is blurred much more in comparison to that of the bottom picture. Shallow depth of field is where the background is in focus (or fairly in focus this was due to my bad focusing skills) whilst deep depth of field is where the background is mostly blurred and often not distinguishable. 

Normall a shallow depth of field would be used for something such as landscape photography whilst a deep depth of field might be used for something such as street photography where a smooth blurred background is often looked for to be in contrast with that, that is in focus.