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It can easily be seen that in my preliminary task
both the front cover and the contents pages look
simple and don’t appeal to any one in particularly.

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My original front cover only features one image which
represents a college student; however it doesn’t look
professional enough to be in a magazine, my new
photo is done much better with a higher standard of
quality and links with the theme a lot more.
The font and colours are also much better, before it
was just bright colours to capture the eye but didn’t
fit in with ‘college life’, now the fonts are more
related to the theme of dub-step music and has more
fitting colours that can be associated with magazine.
The layout is more professional, without any bank or
wasted space making it easier on the eye whereas
before the text and masthead looked like they were
just thrown in wherever they could fit and leaving out
blank spaces.

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The contents page has also vastly improved. I now
have pictures in the contents page to help give the
reader a break instead of having only text in the
page, the background is now only one colour instead
of a bunch of colours mixing together, the text is
now placed properly giving it a more professional
look with page numbers telling the reader where he
will find the article they wish to see.
The foreground of the page with all the information
now sits well with the contrasting background and is
more legible. The page now has a suitable layout with
each section of the page having its own purpose and
no wasted space.

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I learned many things while creating the final look of my
magazine which made it more professional. For starters I learned
how to manipulate the image a lot better, allowing me to remove
the background and leaving only what was necessary on the
page, I also learned how to align text which made the
information on the contents page easier to make and look
correctly.
I used a lot of tools and techniques to make my magazine look
more appealing to my audience such as Gaussian blur to make
the white text boxes blend into the background and not make
the reader focus on it. I also used a simple which doesn’t strain
the eyes making it easy and faster top read.
The final thing that helped me to make the magazine more
appealing to the audience was simple image manipulation, I
changed the colours and added layer effects to both the
foreground and background of my pages giving it a better look
and allowing the reader to appreciate it, while not focusing on it
and not the articles and information.