Unit 14 LO3 PowerPoint

6. Firstly, for the front cover you have to create a new .psd file with the template of an A4
page for the front cover to be at the correct size that the magazine will be in. Once the
template file has been made you can add rulers ‘Ctrl + R’ to form bleeds (2cm) and
guidelines that the front cover images and texts will be aligned in. I individually made
the conventions that I put into the magazine on separate .psd files to them duplicate
over to the front cover. This allowed me to easily organise the layers on the front cover
document into folders of their specific features.
Once making the barcode, by making a rectangular shape and adding in Date/Price and
Website links, I then inserted it into the front cover exactly how Q magazine lay theirs
out. To insert the barcode to the front cover document you right click the layer and click
‘duplicate layer’, a dropdown will appear where you locate the .psd file of the front
cover. Doing the same for other conventions on the front cover magazine such as the
masthead/logo and edited image.
I placed all of the layers that I made into folders so that I can easily see what each are
and name them accordingly. To copy and move a layer at the same time, first select the
layer you need in the Layers panel. Then press the letter V on your keyboard to select
the Move Tool. Press and hold your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key as you click and drag
on the layer in the document to move it.
When you have made the layers in the folders, to keep them in the assigned position,
you would use the lock feature located underneath the layer blending style dropdown.
The multi-coloured background that I used behind the conventions was very simple to
make. I did this by using the brush tool and setting the size to 2165px with a hardness
of 0. Hardness giving it a softer lock making it easier for me to blend in the other colours
that I used.
For the cover stories and the anchorage text I selected the text tool located on the tool
bar and used the Bebas font. In addition, for the puff promotion I used was by using a
premade shape from google and using the magic wand tool to remove the background.
Using the shape and the layer options I used to shades of orange then placed it in the
gradient layer style.

7. Firstly, for the Double Page Spread you have to create a new .indd file with
the template of an A4 page similarly for the front cover to be at the correct
size that the magazine will be in. Once I have made the document into an
A4, change the number of pages to 2 and the number of columns to 3. This
will be where you insert the textboxes into the columns where the interview
will be located. After that, you select the bleed number to 3mm.
Once you have clicked OK on making the document template, you then
need to go over to the layers tab where you will be able to join the two A4
pages together to form the double page spread. Click on and right click the
page 1 and un-tick the button where it says “allow pages to shuffle”. Once
this has been un-ticked you can drag and drop the second page along with
the number 1 page to form the double page spread.
Some conventions that I needed on the double page spread were present
on the front cover which I recently made. To copy the layer over you ha to
export the images from Photoshop as a png then from InDesign click on file
and place to locate the image I needed. Then drag to the selected size on
the double page spread. Doing the same for other conventions on the front
cover magazine such as the masthead/logo and edited image.
After making the double page spread by joining two of the pages together,
select the text tool on the toolbar of InDesign and with the text tool selected
drag it to the bottom of one columns and do the same with the others.
Keeping the layout consistent you can use the selection tool and the copy
command to repeatedly place the text boxes in your preferred columns.
Where the textboxes are located, you will then place the interview in. This
using the command (cmd+c) to copy from the document where you wrote
the interview, to pasting it (cmd+v) in the designated textboxes.
For the double page spread I used the font Gobold and other of its
subsidiary fonts.