The author reflects on improving their skills between a preliminary task and final pieces for a magazine project. They learned to use Photoshop tools more professionally to make the magazine look more edited. Factors like less dead space, more color, and consistency in design elements like the masthead helped make the final pieces more attractive to audiences. Keeping some cover elements the same, such as the large eye-catching main image, helped attract readers.

1. By
Joshua Connolly

2. Preliminary task

3. Final peices

4. So what have I learned?
• Over the period between my initial preliminary task and the
creation of my final piece I have had to improve my skills to develop
a more professional looking piece.
• I feel as though I have done this I have improved my skills on
Photoshop being able to use more of the tools and make my
magazine look like it was edited more professionally.
• Also I feel as though I have learned more of the facotrs that are part
of a magazine I have less dead space and more colour and vibrance
on my final pieces which make them more attractive to the
intended audiences.
• The consistency in my final piece of the masthead helps to
distinguish that its the same magazine and what magazine it is.
• Some factors of the front cover I kept the same like the large
eyecatching main image I feel that this works in the way it attracts
readers.