Here are some of the pages for the Back to School special issue I did for The Eagle. It was my first time doing a cover like this for The Eagle. The editor had liked what I did last time for this issue and offered it to me again.And I was happy to have the chance. I played with different fonts on this issue to try to make it more "fun." However, I am most proud of the cover.
The child was photographed by a staff photographer writing "Back to School" in different colored markers on a white dry erase board. It sounded better in theory, but probably wouldn't have printed very well. As per request of the editor, I put a black chalk board behind the child. By using Adobe photo shop, I cut out the child and merged him with a large image of a black board. Then I cut out chalk, merged it into the new file to cover the dry erase marker in his hand. Then I wrote "Back to School" with a tool in photo shop and managed to get it to a more of a spray paint pattern and point size that resembled chalk.
For the inside pages I tried to change a few things and have some fun with it. The header on Football schedules is in marker felt font. I used this font through out the issue on headers just like this for lists of school supplies, school contacts and schedules.I don't mind doing special issues like this one, because I learn so much about Quark and photoshop as well as the whole printing process.
The next few pages below are more examples of editing and headline writing. I picked these pages in particular because they were full stories and listed on the "Assignments" teaser on the cover. To view more pages from this issue please visit www.theeagle.com/BacktoSchool2011/
