Making of the magazine advert

The only mildly special thing that i did on the magazine advert is to have the square that the writing is on have a darkened and blurred background.

I did this by first selecting the area inside the rectangle and adding a field blur to it. the field blur was then increased to make the background more blurred,

To make the background darker i changed the colour levels using the curves. The curve that i selected will make the blacks darker and the whites lighter. this creates more contrast in the colours and blurs some of the edges. This is also applied over the previous field blur to make the background stay in the background and bring out the text that is in front.