For this project I decided to do what looked like a magazine cover for my fitness blog. I included the photo of the weights in the background to give an athletic feel, making it very easy to tell what this magazine was about. I tried to make the photo in the background very pronounced and dramatic, then used the smaller photos with a lower opacity percentage to make them fade in the main picture. It was a challenge for me to put this together. I am not the most computer tech savvy person you’ll meet, it takes me a long time to understand certain software and I had to go back and watch the videos for the tutorials we did last week. After re-watching the videos, I felt as if I used most of the techniques we were taught, then tried to add some of my own.
I obtained my photos by looking online for free photos that I could use to resemble a weight room. There I found the background, then looked for a logo of the gym I most frequently used. The Gold’s gym logo that I placed on the top left corner is something very important to me, it is the gym that I found my passion for working out. It is where I have made many friends that I will hold close to my heart for a lifetime. Then, the photos that are of my one of my friends used for his app, Train Centric. If you scroll down, you will see where I gathered his permission to use these. Thank you so much for reading! Feel free to leave comments about tips / any helpful hints to help me with this software.
The links for the two photos are listed below:
Emma's Blog 
Two suggestions I would give myself is maybe make the image less dark. Brighten up the background and make it more of a “happy” look instead of a dark one. Another suggestion I would give myself is making the images of myself a little more visible, I messed with a couple settings and changed the opacity in order to make it fade in the photo more. At the time, I thought about how making the photos lighter would help it blend, but now looking at it I think I might want to make the photos stand out more.
One compliment I would give myself is trying to make it personal, even though I used a logo of my favorite gym, as well as a background photo, I tried very hard to make the photos of me the main image. I am looking forward to hearing my peers comments and seeing what more I can add to the photo!
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Emma,
I really like your graphic design project in many ways. I think first of all you putting yourself into the magazine cover shows that you are dedicated to helping people reach their fitness goals witch is a big bonus. A suggestion that I think will help improve your work is maybe trying to put a inspirational quote. This way people might be more motivated to join your fitness program and will be interested in joining Golds Gym. I think that another way you could make it seem a little bit less intimidating is to lighten up the color scheme so that everyone will want to join the program. All in all i think it is a very good cover because it shows people are getting right down to business and working out.
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Hi Emma, I think your draft looks great! It’s got an intense focused kind of feeling and makes it seem like the magazine would targeted toward women aerobics and other activities and such. Is there more you’re gonna add? It seems a bit empty, I would love to see some more going on in it. Other than that, and if you’re giving it a title, I think it’s an overall good job! The opacity level you used is easy enough to spot but doesn’t take my eyes and brain off the main focus of the picture. Is your message trying to say that they’re going to be more individually focuses rather than classes? I ejoyed your picture, I think I would read that magazine with just a few more touches.
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