When I began my task of the school magazine, I was clueless on how to create a magazine, yet alone how to use PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN OR TAKE CORRECT PICTURES. My front cover for my school magazine is largely different to that of my music magazine.
When I began my preliminary task I was unsure on how to begin or execute my ideas well. I used a camera to take photos but even so I was unsure with what poses, backgrounds or angles to use. I feel I progressed with my music magazine as when taking the photographs for my front page, contents page and double page spread I ensured the background was plain or appropriate to make it seem more professional, and I knew my angles better ( like when I used WORMS EYE for my contents page ) and how I wanted the pictures to look.
My understanding and knowledge of using Photoshop and Indesign was very limited and basic when editing the pictures for my school magazine. I did not know how to use the clone tool properly and too its full extent so I struggled with editing pictures for my school magazine. However doing this proved to be beneficial, as it acted as a TRIAL RUN for when I edited my pictures for my music magazine. By the time I came round to using Photoshop for my music magazine my knowledge was greater, I understood Photoshop a lot more, and could use for specific tools for different things. THIS MADE MY PRODUCT MORE DEVELOPED AND CONSTRUCTED WELL.
As seen in the picture above, I learnt about fonts and text alignment. With my school magazine (the left picture) my heading it not aligned on the correct side of the page, it should be closer to the edge. This makes my magazine looks unprofessional. However on my right hand picture it looks far better when it is aligned. This also helped me with my contents page when making sure the text was aligned properly, to make it seem professional. I learnt a lot about FONT , what looked appropriate for my style of magazine and what did not, I feel my font was fairly good in my first attempt, I STUCK TO A COLOUR SCHEME and used font which correlated with the type of magazine I produced. I CARRIED THIS ON FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE.
My contents page for my school magazine was rushed , plain and boring. I included one picture and some text and felt like I needed more text (which I did not want because I did not want my contents page to be full of text) or another picture, I learnt from this mistake and on my school magazine included another photo to brighten the page. I think my school magazine contents page looked sloppy and the font was boring, which I changed for my music magazine
I took greater care in my music magazine than in my preliminary task, this proved beneficial to creating my magazine as I had a more motivated approach. Overall I think my knowledge was greater of PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, FONT AND PICTURES and this helped me create a much more professional looking music magazine. I was far more POSITIVE doing my music magazine than my school magazine and feel I PROGRESSED
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