Magazine Ad

This was the Magazine Ad assignment for Joe's class.
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I had alot of stock photography of my band lying around from a photoshoot a friend of mine did for us at Ryerson. The images were print quality so I thought it'd be a good starting point to do something along those lines.

This thing took a few tries to get right at first. I was messing with different colours and such, mostly with the photos. I was trying to go for a monochromatic thing in the beginning using the colorize option (Image > Adjust > Hue Saturation) in Photoshop. Eventually I gave up on that and just used the natural photos and took the rest of my colours from that.

After that I just grabbed some pix of distortion pedals off the net from the Digitech website. I through a wave distortion Filter on the header text as well (rasterized) to stick with the theme and that was about all it took. I like how the 2 photos create a bit of depth as well with the right pic in the foreground and the guitar photo in the background with a bit less opacity. I ended up getting a good Z-pattern out of the eye movement too.