The author reflects on improvements made from a preliminary magazine project to a subsequent music magazine project. Key improvements included making the masthead bolder and more eye-catching, reducing empty space around images, improving image filters and backgrounds, and creating a more professional layout and structure. The author gained knowledge from mistakes in the preliminary project to strengthen areas like image selection, text readability, and use of color schemes. Overall, the author is pleased with learning new Photoshop techniques that enhanced the quality and professionalism of the final music magazine project.

1. BY AYESHA PATEL

2. As you can see I have learnt and developed new techniques on photo shop that
have allowed me to do a much better job than before. My preliminary tasks
masthead wasn’t very bold and quite basic it also didn't really catch the readers
eye whereas my music magazine masthead does now as it is capitalised and
bold. I have definitely improved as I've learnt from the mistakes I made in the
preliminary task.

3. To me there are obvious
improvements, the most noticeable
one is the image of the main feature;
in my preliminary task the image has a
lot of dead space above it and is very
centred whereas in my music
magazine its a medium close up and
there’s hardly any dead space and if
there was I had filled it with cover lines,
footer and header bars and the
masthead and slogan. There's also a
difference in the effects I put on the
text in the preliminary there is a stroke
on some of the text and it blurred out
the words a bit but in my real thing
everything is fine and easy to read.
There are some similarities like the fact
that both front covers aren’t over
crowded and still have quite a lot of
information in them.

4. My contents pages have some similarities
like the page numbers are both in speech
bubbles and the layout is still quite clear.
However there are visible differences , the
structure is better now and looks much
more professional. Another thing that has
changed is the page heading as its now
eye catching whereas before it was very
plain and basic. The text is quite small and
hardly readable which has definitely been
approved in my music magazines text.
One thing that I did do in both magazines
was the social networking sites added
below which I find very important to
promote my magazine. The colour
scheme in my music magazine is a lot
brighter with colours of blue’s and greys
which stands out against the pale blue
background whereas in my preliminary I
had a plain background with yellow and
blue text which didn’t stand out as much
due to the background being too bright.

5. My images in my preliminary task weren’t that
bad it was just that there was a lot of dead
space. However in my music magazine I had
take every single image and added a filter to
them something that I didn’t do before as I didn’t
know how to. My main image on my music
magazine front cover is so much more interesting
and professional compared to my preliminary
tasks image as the model is alone and the
readers are not being distracted by the
background, the background of the image also
allowed me to work with much more ease as it
was a plain background. My preliminary contents
pages image was quite boring and basic
whereas my music magazines image is very bold
and stands out yet again that maybe due to the
shot and also the filter and background. From my
preliminary task I knew how I wanted my images
to look and what I didn’t want them to look like ,
so I was therefore able to improve my work.

6. I am quite pleased to see how far I've come just by learning
new techniques on Photoshop, this has greatly improved
my work and its clear to see. I was able to see my weak
areas in my preliminary tasks and adjust them so they are
no longer weak and this allowed me to make a much more
professional piece of work. I know that I have learnt a lot
and I know I can now use these new techniques in future
projects to strengthen my work. My understanding of the
layout, images, mastheads and modes of address have
improved and allowed me to make a better piece of work
that I can honestly say I'm proud of.