The document compares the preliminary test magazine to the final product magazine to highlight what was learned. It notes that the preliminary test showed limited Photoshop skills and lower quality pieces compared to the final product. Specifically, the final product featured better edited main pictures that fit the cover perfectly, improved colors and text styles, and a contents page with more professional layout, images, and design elements. The progression showed greatly improved Photoshop and magazine design skills.

2. Double Page Spread Photo Shoot - Album Cover

3. Double Page Spread Photo Shoot - Main Images

4. Contents Page Photo Shoot - Matt

5. Contents Page Photo Shoot - Hannah

6. Front Cover Photo Shoot - Guitar

7. Front Cover Photo Shoot – Hannah

8. Final Cuts

9. Creating the Final Magazine

10. Changing Name and Font

11. Magazine Rough Cuts

13. Magazines To Use As A Basis

14. Mind Map

15. Gantt Chart Time Plan

16. My Intentions

17. Pictures Needed

18. Testing Fonts

19. Naming

21. Photos To Be Used

22. Shortlisting Photos

23. Photo Shoot Overview

24. Double Page Spread Photo Shoot - With Fan

25. Double Page Spread Photo Shoot - With Friend

28. Contents Page Analysis

29. Front Cover Analysis

30. Institutional Background

31. Genre

32. Matt's Test Shoot

33. Visiting Locations

34. Questionnaire

36. Looking back at your preliminary test, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? Front Cover Comparison: The preliminary magazine was made at the very beginning of the project. I had had no previous Adobe Photoshop experience or training and so when it was created I was still learning and grasping how to use Adobe Photoshop. Not only were my basic Photoshop skills not up to scratch but there is a very clear transition in quality of the pieces between the preliminary magazine and the full product final magazine. It is evident how much I have learnt and improved just by looking at them. Looking at the preliminary magazine and the final magazine side by side, many improvements are visible.The main picture is so much better, it looks like it fits with the magazine much more. Although the preliminary picture was appropriate, you can see that it was not edited in any way or amended in any way or cropped and fitted in any way where as that is obvious with the full product picture as the picture fits the cover perfectly and the person is the perfect size for the cover.The colours of the magazine are also much better, and work together far better than that on the preliminary magazine.The sell lines on the full product have also improved, they vary in size and colour much more appropriately and are much shorter and bigger which makes it look much more appealing.

37. Looking back at your preliminary test, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

38. Looking back at your preliminary test, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? Contents Page Comparison: The preliminary contents page I made was not completed deliberately. It did not need to be completed to use the non-existent skills I had at the time of making it and you can see from how it is, how it would have been completed. My preliminary contents page and my final contents page are extremely different. The double column layout has remained the same, except from the bottom of the my final contents page. The layout of my final contents page is so much better, you can see how much it is improved.On the final contents page images were also included, on the preliminary contents page no images were included and also not much text – that was also something different about my final contents page. There is lots of text on that due to the nature of the genre.You can see that the project made me see contents pages in a whole new way (as nothing is really similar between them). This is not just because the preliminary magazine was supposed to be a school/college magazine, and the final product, a music magazine.There is no page number on the contents page like there is on the preliminary. And also the name of the magazine is not displayed again (the full name, like the masthead – the name is shown instead abbreviated as “CT”). The colours are also much improved, for a start there is much more of it on the full product, it isn’t as dull and un-exciting as the preliminary contents page was.