Eleanor learned several skills for creating a professional magazine layout using Quark and Photoshop. In Quark, she learned how to add columns, guidelines, and insert images. In Photoshop, she learned how to overlay photos, crop images, add effects like glows and strokes, adjust brightness/contrast, and create custom shapes. She also used online tools like PicMonkey and Befunky to further modify images.

1. What have you learnt
about technologies from
the process of constructing
this product?
Eleanor Jeffrey

2. Quark
To create my contents page and
double page spread to a high
standard I had to make it look
professional. To do this this I
needed to create columns. So
during my production on quark I
learnt how to do this. It is done
when you first start up the page.
Another way to make the
magazine look
conventional was to add
in guide lines. This
enabled me to line up the
images and text. To do
this accurately you can
use the rulers and the top
and side of the page.
I learnt how to insert images/pictures and
logo’s onto the magazine. First you draw
out where you want to put the image using
the image box tool. The image doesn’t
always fit to the box. To resolve this you
simply just right click the image and press
‘scale image to fit box’ by doing this, you
will have no white space left around the
box.
I had to change my font size
and style to fit it with the
conventions of a magazine.

3. This is
where I
used the
image tool
This is an example of where I used
the text tool. I changed the font, the
font colour and I highlighted the
background to make it stand out.
These are the column guide lines
that I put In place. They correctly
aloud me to evenly space out my
text and image.
I created this image using photo
shop, this is an example of when I
changed the layer style creating an
unusual effect which fits with the
genre of m magazine.

4. This is the columns
that I used for the
page layout.
This is an example of
where I’ve used the
image tool.
This is an example of how I got the
lines parallel with each other
adhering to the typical
conventions. I did this by using the
column lines and the text box

5. Photoshop
To make my images stand out I used
Photoshop. There are many different
way that I leant how to do this, my
first one was to overlay two photos
together. I did this by creating new
layers and merging the layers to
either ‘screen’ or ‘lighten’ which will
put a cool effect on the pictures and
they both look like they are merged
together.
I also learnt how to crop
around images so I can
then add the image to
the background of my
choice. Cropping out
images was either done
by using the magnetic
lasso tool which will
automatically crop
around it. Or the
freeform pen tool. The
magnetic one is faster
and simpler to use but
the pen tool is more
accurate. Smudging the
outline of the cut out
image make it less
sharp.
For my front cover image, I put a
glow effect around her to make her
stand out, I also did this with some
of my text on the page. The stroke
effect also made the same outcome.

6. Photoshop
Using the image adjustment
to brighten a photo or change
the contrast, I also found
loads more effects that I
could of used to change the
image style.
To add a rasterised effect
around the pictures, I used the
eraser tool and changed it to
‘spatter’.
I got to recreate
the artists logo. I
could do this by
using the different
custom shapes
tool and putting
them on top of
each other. I then
fixed the layers
together. I used 4
different shapes
to create this
logo.

7. Photoshop
For the construction of the
background in my front cover, I Used
the pen tool to select lines and I put
gradients through them and changes
the opacity and the colours to create
a beam effect.

8. This image has been adjusted using the image tool, I
changed the brightness and contrast to make it stand out. I
also used the blending options and put a glow on around
her. The original image did have a background but I used
the pen tool and the magic lasso tool to crop her out.
I also used the blending options
to create this effect on the
masthead. I used the stroke
and change the colour to blue.
I used the gradient tool
here on the blue band
I used the
circle
shape
took here,
I also
used the
blending
options to
put a
stroke
around it.

9. Websites
some webpages, I used like’
befunky.com’ and
‘picmonkey.com’ where good
for modifying images and
making the artists look more
glamorous.

10. PicMonkey http://www.picmonkey.com/

11. befunky http://www.befunky.com/