Double page spread process and construction

The first thing I had to do to complete my double page spread was to edit my picture. I chose this image because it was the perfect look for the double page spread because she was facing outwards and towards the left side, which will be where the writing is. I edited this image using Pixlr, an on line photo editing website. First of all I used a tool called the 'spot heal tool' to get rid of skin marks and blemishes.

I then highlighted, with the 'lassoo tool', the leotard the model is wearing and put the brightness and contrast up just to make her clothing seem less dull and more magnified in the image.

 Then to make the whole background seem brighter I selected around the model and the shadow with the lasso tool and adjusted the brightness to '30' so that it became completely white in the background.

This was all of the editing that I did for my double page spread image so I then moved on to designing the actual pages.

I placed my image on the right side of the double page, making sure it covered the whole thing. I then moved onto my title/headline which was 'WYNTER WESTWOOD SOLO GIRL'. I drew up a text box and wrote this in 'arial narrow bold' as this font seemed pretty close to one of the ones I saw in my research. I placed it in the centre and at the top of the page and centred all of the words. I made it quite large because that was the look I was going for in my double page spread. I decided that this looked a bit plain and boring so I adjusted the measurements of the text to make it bolder and more interesting.

Once I had adjusted it, it then look like the above picture which was better because it suited the image more and just overall looked better than it id before.
I then moved onto the writing and that began with a subtext that was to be situated bellow the title/headline. In this I wrote 'AFTER SPLITTING WITH TRIANGLE IN 2011, WYNTER WESTWOOD HAS BEEN NON STOP STUDIO WORK EVER SINCE. RECENTLY SIGNED BY RED ONE, AS A SOLO ARTIST, SHES BRINGING TO THE TABLE SOMETHING NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE.' I put this into the same font as the title but put a slight italics on it.
I decided to have my main article in the classic form of columns and since I was only using the one page for text I only fit in two columns. I had already decided to have big letters at the beginning of the paragraphs so I did this twice within the article. I wanted the letters to look embedded and part of the text so I made separate text boxes for them and the writing that was to be directly next to it.

Once this was done and I had finished writing in my article I  began to change my mind on the background of the large image and whether I wanted it to be completely white on the background. So I made a 2nd layer and changed this image to the one where the background had not been edited.

I looked at them both and decided to go with the grey background because it then looked like more of an image because the background of the writing is white.

When this was decided I began to make the finishing touches to my double page spread starting with a border and page numbers. To do this I put a thin line across the bottom and top of the page and at the top I put 'WYNTER GOES SOLO' above the border to show what the article is called and can be found in the contents page under the same name. According to my contents page the page number is 40 so I put it as 40-41. I also put the date at the bottom of both pages and put the title of the magazine 'HAZE' next to it in the corner.
When I had completed with I discovered I really disliked my headline so I randomly selected a font for 'wynter westwood' and a separate one for 'solo girl' which were 'brush script' and 'orator'

I spontaneously selected the orange colour and discovered that I actually quite liked it and the font added some more interest to the page. To make it more of a fuller, more united piece of work, I slanted the 'wynter westwood' text inwards but kept 'solo girl' straight. To do this I now had to separate the two into different text boxes.

Now that I had changed my title and was more pleased with it, I needed to add something else in the same orange colour so that it did not look random or out of place, as the only coloured thing on the page. To tie it all on I put a small amount of text on the right side that says 'FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW GO TO WWW.HAZEMAGAZINE.ORG'.

I again decided to change my title as I did not think that it justified well enough the edginess of the artist's picture. I reversed the colours and make the name (which is the 'punky' statement of the page) in black and the 'solo girl' in a softer orange because this text shows the sweet side. a sort of 'sweet and sour' kind of image.

I chose this font that is called 'lithos pro' as it is much sharper fatter and edgier that the previous calligraphic font. I believe this font supports the image more as a whole.