The document describes the process of creating a double page magazine spread in Photoshop and Publisher. Key steps included removing the background of an image using selection tools in Photoshop, placing the image and text in Publisher for easier column formatting, adding a title and pull quote with varied formatting, and including design elements like colored shapes and text styling to make the spread visually interesting.

1. Making my First Draft of my Double Page Spread

2. I first began to make my double page spread by opening up the image that I want to use on
Photoshop and using the eraser tool and the pen tool to remove the background. I tried
using the magic wand tool to do this as it is much quicker and easier but there were quite a
lot of features in the background that I had to edit out so the magic wand tool would have
been even harder to use for this image. I then made her lips a brighter red to contrast more
with the genre of my magazine. I did this using the brush tool to go over her lips and then I
decreased the opacity of this so that it looks more realistic.

3. I then placed my image on to Microsoft Publisher so that I could place my article on it. The
reason why I decided to do this on Publisher rather than Photoshop is because on Publisher the
text falls around the image and you can change the layout of the text into columns, to make it
look more professional and to follow conventions of double page spreads. Photoshop does not
do this which makes it much harder to do as you won’t get very accurate columns and if you
change part of the article it will effect the whole layout of the article. I also placed a vertical line
down the centre of the page so that I know where the pages will fold.

4. Next I placed my title/pull quote onto my page. I found a font that I thought linked well with
the rock genre and I decided to make some of the words bigger than other to make them
stand out and so that it is a bit more interesting and diverse. I also rotated my title slightly as
when looking at existing double page spreads I noticed that quite a few of them have their
title on a slant and I thought that it looked very nice like this so I decided to do the same with
mine.

5. After that I placed my article onto my double page spread. I used a drop cap at the beginning of
my article as this is a convention of double page spreads. I also used different coloured fonts to
separate the text, making it easier to read. For my question and answer part of my article I put
the question in red and the answer in black so that they are easily separated. I also put the
answer in italics to show that this is a quote from Black Ray. I also increased the size of a quote
from the article and changed the colour to make it stand out.

6. Also I placed a bit of information next to the image saying who the photographer of this
image is and information about the outfit that my model is wearing.

7. I then added a bit of colour to my design because I thought that it looked quite plain and boring.
I added some red rectangles across my double page spread by going under shapes and selecting
rectangle. I also added some red squares in the corners of the pages, using the same tool, and
placed the page number in the two squares at the bottom.

8. Then I added the name of my magazine next to the page numbers so that the reader knows
what magazine they are reading. I also think that this makes my magazine look more
professional. I did this by copying and pasting the title off the front cover of my magazine.

9. Finally, I thought that the title looked quite boring so I placed black rectangles behind some
of the letters and changed the colour of these letters to white. I think that this looks very
effective as it still matches my colour scheme but it makes it eye-catching and it draws the
reader in.