The document summarizes the steps taken to design a contents page in Photoshop. These include adding a textured grey background, red and black boxes to continue the style of the cover, copying text from dafont.com and cutting it out to place in the top right corner. Additional black boxes were made to frame text and grey boxes with 20% opacity were used to display small images. More images and page numbers in boxes were added, with the numbers changed in color for professionalism. Smaller explanatory text was then included, with a microphone image placed behind boxes on the left side for subtle detail.

1. Contents Page

2. Firstly I opened a blank A4 canvas. I then added a grey a texture to it to add some detail to the background.

3. Using the shape tool on Photoshop I added a red box and a black box. These are the same colours that are used on the front cover so they continue the house style over onto the contents page. Using dafont.com I copied text onto Photoshop and using the magic wand tool cut it out and added it to the top right hand side of the contents page.

4. Using the shape tool I added two black boxes so that the text on the page will stand out from the background. Again, I used this because it is on the front cover and I needed to continue the house style on the contents page. Next I added a grey box and altered the opacity to 20%. I created the 100X100 pixel images from my original photos and placed them on top of that box.

5. I added three more original images below the previous images to add more detail to the page and make it visually interesting to the reader. Using dafont.com I copied page numbers and text onto Photoshop and then using the magic wand tool cut it out and placed it into the boxes. I changed the colour of the page numbers as this is something I’ve seen done in the magazines that I analysed during my pre-production research and it looks professional.

6. Using the same steps as I have done previously I added smaller text to explain features on the contents page. Finally, I added an image of a microphone on the left hand side. I put it behind the text boxes as I didn’t want it to stand out I just wanted to add some small detail to the left hand side as it looked too plain.