The project brief asked the student to create a front page, contents page, and double page spread for both a college magazine and a music magazine. For the college magazine, the student used Microsoft Publisher and took their own photograph for the front cover. For the music magazine, the student used Quark Xpress and Photoshop and based it on the magazine NME. Through completing the project, the student learned how to use professional publishing and editing software like Quark and Photoshop, allowing them to make their magazines look more polished and professional compared to using basic desktop software.

1. Overall Evaluation

8. Individual Evaluations

14. Comparing my two magazines and what I’ve learnt throughout the tasks As you can see I’ve learnt a lot since I started to create my college magazine. One thing I’ve learnt is about different publishing software for example Quark and Photoshop. For my first magazine I used an easy desktop programme called Microsoft publisher which anybody can use where as for my Music Magazine I used a professional programme. By doing this it allowed my to make my magazine look better by making things stand out more by using Drops Caps and Shadow behind text. An example of this would be the shadow on the main headings on my contents page which makes them stand out a lot more than the writing without shadow on my College contents page. I also learnt how to use Photoshop to touch up photos as I had no understanding of this before I started the project. Overall my understanding of how to use a more professional editing programme and how this affects your overall magazine has improved a lot and I now know the benefits of this compared to a normal desktop publisher.