This student magazine review summarizes the creation of the front cover and contents page of a student magazine. For the front cover, the student found the image and background/masthead worked well together visually. Cutting around the lead image precisely was the most difficult part. For the contents page, using different colored text that stood out on the gray background and including images on the left side worked well visually. Maintaining consistent text sizes across fonts was the most challenging aspect. Overall, the contents page was easier to create than the front cover due to its simpler design relying mainly on text and unedited images.

1. Student Vibe Magazine
Media studies college magazine

3. FRONT COVER

4. What works? I think my magazine cover background masthead work well together, the
colors look bold on the grey background. Also i think the image goes well within the
background and masthead, the black and white image looks bold on the grey
background, also it makes the image stand out more because the colors are alike.
What doesn't? I think the barcode doesn't go very well
within the magazine front cover, it doesn't look in place being at
the top of the page next to the masthead..

5. What was difficult? I found cutting around my lead image the most difficult, this was
because the image had so much background and different details, so it was hard to
cut around it and trying to get a smooth edge at the same time.
What you found easy? I found choosing and editing my text,
and making my header the easiest. I already knew how to use
dafont.com and how to colour-rise the layers.

6. What have you've learnt? Learning about the colour range tool helped me and lot
within the process of making my front cover of my magazine. This was because
usually i would of just used the lasso tool to cut around my image, but i found the
colour range tool much easier to cut around a image. I used it mainly on my lead
image to cut out the background.
If you had all the money and time in the world what would you change? I would
make the magazine firstly look very professionally, i would also add more pages and
articles, and also make the images brighter and look really clear and add everything
that students want included in the magazine every month.
What other magazines can you compare it too? Not the whole magazine of course
because it is a college magazine, but some articles you can relate them too
magazines like more and heat also ELLE and vogue.

7. CONTENTS PAGE

8. What works? I think the choice of colour i have used within my magazine contents page
works well, the different coloured text stands out on the grey background. Also i think
having the images on the left verb looks good, it makes the inside look more eye
catching to the audience then just having a page full of text.
what doesn't? –I don’t think the ‘subscribe for only £2.50 a month’ at the
bottom of the page looks good. I think it would be more suitable to put
that on the inside of the magazine. It looks a bit out of place being right
at the bottom of the page.

9. What was difficult? The only thing i thought was difficult with making my contents page
was the text size, it was hard to try and get the same text size, because I was using
dafont.com not the text tool on photoshop.
What you found easy? I found nearly all of the making of the contents page very easy
to make. I think this was because it was rather simple as most of it was text and
images that I didn’t need to edit or change, overall I found It was much simpler than
making the front cover.