DIVERSE - Final Lesson

Today was our final lesson to finish our magazines and me and my partner got straight to work. Today we were adding in all the conventions of a magazine and then hopefully move on to create the first page of the magazine.

Firstly we added the barcode in the lower right had corner of the page along with the release date. We also labelled the price at £3.60 under the masthead on the top right with the issue number. On the opposite side in the same colour and font we added a mode of address.
We added another image of Alicia Keys from the internet and made the image appear rounded we also added a cover line for this.

The main cover line was related to the main image, the font was different from everything else and bigger than the rest of the text. We also used a dropped shadow effect.
We added a few cover lines around the front cover using the same font as the masthead, a white and yellow colour scheme and a glow effect around the text. The font was smaller than the main cover line but bigger than the issue number. The text on the left was aligned to the left and the text on the right was aligned to the right.

The last thing we did was add a banner at the bottom of the page, we thought adding in any more detail would crowd the front cover, we tried adding a graphic but there was no appropriate position for it so we decided to leave the front cover as it is. Also because we were short on time and everyone had finished both their covers and contents page so we decided to move on.

When making the contents page we became lazy, just like the front cover we used a black background and used the same rainbow gradient. To make it slightly different we flipped it and inversed the colours. We then used the same font in white as the font as the front cover to type out the paging.

The last thing we did was find an image of Nicole from PCD, we placed her on the layer under the text. She had a few white bits around her so I used the magic wand tool to erase it, and to finish of i used the blur tool to slightly blur the sharp images.We had finally completed our Photoshop and it was ready to print but when we did print we noticed that the main cover line was faded. We checked the Mac and there were no errors. The printer room was now locked so it was up to us to print it off again in our own time.

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