Final Double Page

I think my double page spread 'Interview with Rachael Woods' is my best page I have created. this page contains a title, questions and answers, a small promotion and a picture of 'Rachael Woods'. The whole page remains with in the colour scheme of red, white and black. The only thing that took along time on this page was editing the picture in photoshop so I could put it on my double page without a background. To do this I selected the outline of the photo and cut it from the origional image and then pasted it into a new document without the background. I was then able to but it in my double page in the same way I inserted the other pictures on the other pages, I made it look like 'Rachael Woods' is leaning against the edge of the page, I think this gives it a professinal look as I have seen it done in other magazines. Another thing that took time was writing the questions, I took my inspireation from other magazines with similar interviews.

The picture I used for the double page spread was taken of my friend in her bedroom but by editing it I have managed to make it look like a professinal photograph taken in a studio here is the original image and the edited image.

Final Contents

This is my final contents page. I tried many differnt designs but none of them seemed to work, this although not a great contents page was the best option. I have used pictures to attempt to make my contents page more asthetically pleasing, and I have stuck to the colour scheme of white, black and red.

Creating The Contents Page

In my opinion my contents page is by far the worst out of all the pages I have created, However what I have done is use images to make it more exciting. These are the images I used in my contents page.

Creating The Front Cover

This is the origional image I used for my front cover. To make the image like it is on the front cover now I edited it in photoshop. Once I had made these changes the photo looked like this.

I was then able to add it to my front cover with out a background so I could easily layer it on top of the title. This is the only image I used on my front cover.

Final Front Cover 31st March

This is my final front cover, I am very happy with it. I gave it a professional look but covering the magazine title sightly with the picture. I have put few other freatures other than the main

article in the magazine so it doesn't look too cluttered. The feature ideas cam from other magazines I have read in the past. I have based my front cover on Q magazines May 2008 issue with Madonna on the cover. Similarities I included were the colour scheme, super imposed image over the title, feature in a circle and a band of colour with a feature in it.

Front Cover Major Task - 23rd March

Today I finished my front cover for my magazine, I added a couple more features 'Top 10 Music Chart' to do this I added a new layer and added a circle to write in I then added the text and played around with the colour eventually I chose to have the circle white and the text black I also changed the size and the font to 'Impact', to give it a better effect. I also added the feature 'Rachael Woods Exclusive Interview' to do this I again created another layer and added a box however didnt fill it with a colour so I added text over the main image of Rachael, I made the name the biggest feature on the page as it is the main article in the magazine, I then changed the colours image Rachael red and Woods white to go with the main colour scheme of the magazine, then I continued to add another layer and added a box in the same way adding the text 'Exclusive Interview', I made this text white and smaller than the title of the article. The final feature title I added was the 'New IPod' title, I did the same to add this as I did for the previous article however this one was smaller and all white. I also added the price and date to the front cover to do this I made another layer for each added the text and changed the size, font and colours.

Front Cover Major Task - 22nd March

I continued working on my front cover today, at the weekend I took photograpghs of my friend to use in my major task. I started today by uploading these photos, I chose the head shot for my front cover and so edited it in 'Photoshop', all I had to do was cover up some blemishes using the cover up tool and then I deleted the white background using the cutting tool. I then had to print screen this image into 'Paint' as my computer wouldnt allow me to insert an image from 'Photoshop' into my 'Indesign' document. Once I had done this I cut the part of the image I wanted from the print screen and save this . I then dragged the edited image into my 'Indesign' document as the main focus of the front cover.

I also and some text to my front cover describing one of the contents of the magazine, this was a competition to win tickets to a concert, to do this I had to make a new layer and add a box I then filled this yellow so it stood out from the black background of the front cover, I then added text to this box and changed the font to bold 'Century Gothic'.