The document discusses a student's research into how magazines are created using Photoshop and other software. The student emailed questionnaires to various magazine companies. Responses indicated that Photoshop is widely used, along with some companies' own software. Time to create a full magazine ranges from 3 days to 3 weeks depending on publication frequency. Individual pages generally take 1-4 days to create. Respondents predominantly use Macs for magazine production due to reliability and suitability for the work. The number of people working on each issue is estimated between 400-500.

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7. Results 1.) What software does your company use, to create the magazine? Answer: Photoshop. 2.) On average, how long does it take to create a full magazine? Answer: Two weeks. 3.) On average, how long does it take to create an individual page of your magazine? Answer: Individual pages are quite quick to make dependant the designer has all the content. 4.) What do you use the most to create your magazine, PC or Mac? Answer: Here at NME we use Mac’s for everything, producing music, editing magazines and writing up reports. We think they are the most suitable and reliable. 5.) Can you estimate how many people work on one magazine per issue? Answer: 400 [email_address]

8. Results 1.) What software does your company use, to create the magazine? Answer: We have our own software but we also use Photoshop. 2.) On average, how long does it take to create a full magazine? Answer: We release a monthly magazine, so it takes roughly three week. 3.) On average, how long does it take to create an individual page of your magazine? Answer: Each page has a deadline to meet, this is usually 3 days. 4.) What do you use the most to create your magazine, PC or Mac? Answer: Sky have a contract with Apple where we get various amount of products for free. therefore we use Mac’s. 5.) Can you estimate how many people work on one magazine per issue? Answer: It is very common for around 500 people to be working on one magazine. [email_address]

9. What software does your company use to create the magazine? Out of the people that replied, they all said they use Photoshop in some aspects of their magazine, a few of them also said they have created their own software which they use to create parts of their magazine.

10. On average, how long does it take to create a full magazine? The time in which it takes to create a full and complete magazine depends on how frequently the magazine is released. If it’s a weekly magazine then it will have to be made in less than a week, if its released monthly they have a lot longer. The average time it takes is around 3 days for a weekly magazine and 3 weeks for a monthly. This gives them time to review and check the magazine.

11. On average, how long does it take to create an individual page? Each individual page takes around two days to make, if it’s a weekly magazine. If it is a monthly ,magazine they can spend more time doing this and it could take up to 4 days.

12. What do you use to create your magazine, PC or Mac? All of the people that replied said they use Mac’s to create their magazines. The reasons for this are that they are most suitable and reliable.

13. Can you estimate how many people work on one magazine per issue? The amount of people that work on a magazine was a lot bigger than I thought. The answers to this question was between 400 and 500.