Update - newspaper advert

I found an established image from the internet and played around with the manipulation of the image using Gimp. As it was my first time using the image manipulating software, I had to familarise myself with what it offers. This included using layers, colourising, merging etc. It took quite a while to get used, but I improved bit by bit. In the beginning, I downloaded Picasa; this was an easier programme to use, though there wasn’t much choice and variety on what I could do to the image making it weak.


When it came to taking my own image, it did not work at all. It was hard to get hold of a university outfit and graduation hat, so I scraped the idea.




Next I came up with the idea of graduation certificate with money surrounding it. The flash of my camera worsened the picture, which made it look messy and unclear.



Finally with help from media teacher, I decided to take 2 pictures. The first image was coins stacked up against a white background, second was a model carrying something against a white background as well. Then I had to merge the two together. Problems that occurred were the background, even though the background came out white and bright on the camera, on the computer it was grey. To fix this problem I used the magic wand, which is a fuzzy effect, select the images I wanted. I then placed the coins on top of the model’s hand. So it looked like the coins were weighing the model down.

There are so many ways I could improve image, but time was running out. I added the title, a simple statement to the poster that related to the topic, the broadcaster’s logo and a link to website. Typography was bold, in upper case, making more clear and appealing.