The document discusses the lessons learned from creating a college magazine that helped improve the creator's music magazine. It describes mistakes made with the college magazine like low quality images, unappealing text formatting and colors, and boring pictures. These errors were not repeated in the music magazine, which used a professional camera, more eye-catching fonts and colors, and interesting genre-related images. Creating the college magazine allowed the creator to practice using Photoshop and InDesign software for the first time and identify issues to address for the higher quality music magazine.

4. Both magazine covers were created using Photoshop. At first I
was unsure of how to work Photoshop, as I had not used it
beforehand. Creating the college magazine allowed me to
practice how to use it efficiently enough to create the cover
for my music magazine.

5. After creating the college magazine I noticed there were
errors which I would not include in my music magazine. The
font and colour of the words I used on the cover did not
stand out and therefore would not grab the attention of the
reader. This allowed me to find mistakes I made and ensure
they were not used in my official magazine.

6. The image used for the cover magazine of the college
magazine was taken with a phone. This created a bad quality
image, therefore making the image look stretched when it was
uploaded. As well as this text was mostly covering the image
and it did not stand out.
In my official magazine I took the picture using a professional
camera in order to make the image good quality, as well as
relating it to the genre of my magazine. This enabled it to
become eye catching.

8. Both contents pages were created using InDesign. Alike to
Photoshop, I had not used this software beforehand. Making
the college magazine allowed me to practice how to layout and
create my music contents page.

9. Mistakes and errors were made in my college magazine which
I made sure would not be redone on my music magazine. For
example, I numbered the contents page as page 1 while
stating that page one was an about us page. Also the colours
looked boring and did not stand out very well, therefore I
made the colours more eye catching on my music magazine.

10. The pictures used in the college magazine were not very
interesting or appealing. Because of this I made sure the
images used on my official contents page were more
interesting, this was done by using bands of the same genre
as my magazine.

12. Although I did not create an article in the preliminary task, it
helped me create my music article. This is due to the practice
of using InDesign which allowed me to explore how to layout
the page and how to use the tools to edit pictures, text etc.