3. What have you learnt about technologies?
For my front cover I developed my skills on
Photoshop to achieve the look of my final
magazine.
I leant how to use the Polygonal Lasso Tool. I
used it to cut around my main image and crop
the background out. This meant I could
experiment with different backgrounds of my
choice. I then used the eraser tool to smooth the
edges of my image. I also learnt about the
different effects I could add to my image giving it
different looks. I added the effect ‘Outer Glow’ to
again smooth the edges of the image.
I learnt how to use the 3D tool on my mast-head
to give it a shadowed look.
Front Cover
4. Front Cover
What have you learnt about technologies?
I leant how to play with my text on my front
cover. I wanted the cover lines to be all
different sizes, fonts and colours. This is
because I wanted it to follow the conventions
of a music magazine. I learnt how to space out
my words to fit the boxes by using this tool.
5. Front page
What have you learnt about technologies?
I learnt how to make things stand out more by
using back boxes and shapes. When creating my
shapes I learnt how to make to increase the
exterior thickness of the shape and to change the
colour of it. This made certain things stand out
more on my front cover.
I used the circle took
for the bulletin on the
left hand side of my
magazine and then
the rectangle shape at
the top of the front
page.
6. Contents Page
What have you learnt about technologies?
For my other image on my
contents page I learnt how
to experiment with the
brightness and exposure
to achieve the certain
gradient I wanted.
I again used the shape
tools to make things
stand out. I learnt how
to change the thickness
of them. I created one
red line to go under each
of the sub-headings and
then learnt how to copy
each one so the process
was quicker.
7. Contents Page
What have you learnt about technologies?
I created a different logo (Which has the exact
same meaning) for my contents page. I did this
again through using shapes. I used the rectangle
tool and then added my text in to it.
8. Double page spread
What have you learnt about technologies?
I got the big ‘A’ at the back of
my text by using the expanding
text tool.
I was able to experiment with different
point percentages to get the exact size I
wanted for it to fit on the whole page.
9. Double-Page Spread
What have you learnt about technologies?
I learnt how to use to
brightness and exposure
to get this black and
white effect.
10. Double-page spread
What have you learnt about technologies?
I used the line tool to create my
border. I learnt how to make each line
the same thickness. However I
wanted them to be at different
lengths vertically so I learnt how to
make them longer and then applying
transformation.
11. Publishing posts
What have you learnt about technologies?
I learnt how to use different sites to put all my posts
together on my blog. For my word documents I
learnt about the site called slideshare. It allows all
my documents to be kept together as well as view
them like a slide show.
I also learnt how to use prezi. It allowed me to show
all my ideas about my music magazine creatively;
allowing me to create a page with my own colours
and fonts.
