FRONT COVER

Whilst making the front cover on photo shop I learnt to use a lot of tools, for example to edit the picture I had to use 3 tools

1. Magnetic Lasso
2. Magic Wand
3. Eraser

These tools took a while to get use to, and the image itself took a long time to go around it. But the outcaome was good and worth the time toaken to complete it.

Double Page Spread

The double page spread is the most difficult of all, its not the designing that is difficult it is the fact that we had to make it on a programme that I have never used before this was called

Adobe InDesign

I had to get use to a whole new layout this programme didn't have any layers to use, and most of the options that I found in photo shop were either not in this programme or in a different location, so it was hard to get use to it.

But I began to get use to it, the main tool it was missing was the magic wand tool so i still needed to use photo shop,. Due to this I had to save it as a new format '.TIFF', this allowed my to insert a picture without a background. I have also started to write about the band members but as of today it is still a work in progress.

Contents page

I really like my contents page, I had an idea on my contents page and I think it went well, I scanned an A4 lined pad, I then used this as my background, I think this looks good because writing and writing pads naturally go together, I have used a wide range of fonts and colours on this page to make it look as bight and attractive as possible, in the lower left corner I have a photo of the band again, and again I cut it out, using the tools I have learned to us in photo shop.

Music Mag Front Cover

Front Cover.

I feel that my front cover has gone really well, the main image that I have used on the front works really well with the background colours. I think that the way that the masthead has been made is good, the record and the red writing has gone really well together, I used alot of blending options on my text for my masthead I used:

• Drop Shadow
• Inner Glow
• Outer Glow

I think that the cover lines are well laid out, my faourite feature of the cover lines are the words tat stand out 'Exclusive' is an example it stands out as I have made it slightly bigger and changed the colour. It took me a while to cut out the main image but the time taken shows in the image, I feel that it is a strong image I have added a drop shadow to the image I feel that it makes it look like the image is coming off of the page.

For my front page I used a few different fonts, these fonts were found on a website called www.dafont.com, this website was a real help as it held a vast amount of great fonts tat have helped make my front cover what it is now.

Photo Shoot

TAKING THE PHOTOS - I used a school camera and used the school lighting room.

I have already began to make my music magazine, i think that hardest part of all was to get everyone together and take the photos, we had to organise this. but overall I am very happy with the outcome of these photos, as I was able to use a professional lighting system. Below are one of my images I have taken: