The document describes using various graphic design tools like the crop tool, scale tool, color tool, and eye dropper tool to edit and lay out elements on magazine pages. Key edits include resizing photos to fit canvases, increasing the size of mastheads to stand out, decreasing spacing between images and titles, and changing colors to follow a scheme. Locking layers and toggling visibility helped manipulate elements individually for precise adjustments.

1. Crop tool used to re-size picture as it was too large to fit on the canvas.

2. This was the result. Now the photo fits on the canvas.

3. Used the scale tool to alter the mast head, so that it can take up more room on the front
page, as it looked condensed.

4. The mast had has taken up more room on my front page. I thought that the masthead didn’t
stand out so I used the colour tool to change to change the outline of my mast head.
I have changed the colour of the outline on my masthead and now the masthead stands
out as result.

5. The picture was big for the canvas on fireworks, so I used the scale tool to decrease the
size of the picture.

6. By using the scale tool, I have now decreased the size of the photo and now the photo fits on the
canvas on fireworks.
In order to get my models body over the title, I copied and pasted the layers of which is my model on
the cover.

7. Next I will use the lasso tool to crop around the picture that doesn’t that have the masthead with it.
Unfortunately, I t didn’t work out well for me. So I used the scale tool to increase the size of the
picture so that the head room between my model and the masthead is decreased.
I clicked the lock icon for all the bitmaps and text so that they wouldn’t be
altered when I increased the size of my picture, I also clicked the lock icon so, I
can alter the size of my main picture. Then, I clicked the eye icon so that all my
text was invisible and that it wouldn’t be moved around so that I could then
use the scale tool to make increase my picture size.

8. And this was the result of using the scale tool to decrease the head room between my picture and
mast head.
In order to follow a colour scheme, I wanted to use black white and yellow for my magazine, but it
didn’t work out well, so I used green instead of yellow to see if it worked with my front page

9. I used the eye dropper tool, so that I could take the colour green and use it for my puffs.
I used it for “Angel Haze” and the pull quote underneath the puff.

10. I am going to use the scale tool to rotate the picture slightly and decrease the size of the other
magazine for which I am going to use for a subscription advert I have mimicked the layout of the
NME contents page, by doing this, I will be following conventions of music magazines.

11. So that I can bring the photo in front of the vector, I right clicked, went to “arrange” and then
selected “bring forward” so that it will be in front of the box and when I use the scale tool to
decrease the size, it will be inside the box.
I used the scale tool to decrease and rotate the picture so that it was at an angle so that I could use it
for my subscription, still mimicking the NME
contents page layout and still following conventions.

12. After audience feedback for my cover page, I found that there were too many colours that were
being used on the front page. They also suggested I used a different picture for my front page.
For my front cover photo, I edited this on pic monkey. I used the “lip tint” tool to change the colour
of her top so that I could use the colour as part of my colour scheme.
Copied and pasted the photos of
Rhian. Then put the masthead layer in
between. I then used the magic wand tool
to crop the layer underneath.

13. This way, I am able to get my masthead
behind the main cover image, following
conventions of hip hop magazines, in
which the cover star is always in front
of the masthead, posing their
importance. Also the audience already
know the name of the magazine, no
matter what because of the general
house style it uses.
This is the finished product after changing the colour of my models vest top.