Skills Development

(covers) before

after

These are the two front cover pages which i have created. the preliminary task of making a cover for the college magazine is a lot more basic design than my final music mag piece. There are many reasons for this mainly because of my skills on photoshop have improved a lot since when i started at the beginning of the year. firstly the more complex nature of title on my final peice is because i have found pictures of speakers and cut out parts and put them onto to my title text. This makes the letters of the text themselves looks like speakers i think it does this to good effect. i have also used the clone stamp tool from photoshop to help get rid of all the brand logos on show, this allows for the customers to not be distracted when looking at the cover on display.

(contents) before

after

These are my two contents page which i have made. Once again the final design for my music magazine is more complex than the first one. Firstly i have incorprated a picture as the backround image of my final page which takes up half of the page so it doesnt look stretched out i then filled in the other half of the page with a blue block then i used the gradient tool to blend in the picture and the colour block so it looks apart of the picture. The second techniques i used for my final contents page was changing my picture of one of the artists on the page to black and white. I think this adds a good efect to the page as the picture doesnt stand out too much from the rest of the page and distract the reader.