The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and contents page in Photoshop. For the cover, the designer added a masthead, removed a male model from a photo using the eraser tool, added boxes with text to describe sections, filled a gap on the left with color, and added a barcode. For the contents page, the designer centered the masthead, added boxes with section names, and included logos and a photo with the background removed.

1. To start my design for my front cover I added my mast head onto a plain white A4
background in Photoshop. I designed my mast head using fonts from ‘dafont.com’. I
wanted the font to stand out, but also be simple and easy to read whilst on the front of
my magazine. I also wanted it to reflect the style and design of the magazine, which I feel
it does.

2. Next I added the medium close up photograph of my models. At this stage I decided to
remove the male model from the photo using the eraser tool, because I felt the photo
looked better with just girls on the front as it looked more balanced. I used the eraser tool
to carefully go round the edge of both of the female models because the selection tool did
not effectively select the edge of the models.

3. To continue on with my magazine front cover design I added boxes using the shape tool on
Photoshop, and then filled these with a dark grey colour before using the text tool to add
white text onto these.

4. Next I moved the background across, leaving a gap at the edge of the left hand side of my
magazine. I then used the fill tool on Photoshop to fill this gap and used the select colour tool
to select the same colour as I used in the boxes.

5. The final adjustment to my magazine design was adding the barcode. I created the barcode
on an online generator, saved it as a JPEG and then imported this into Photoshop before
deciding where on my magazine to place it.

6. To start my design for my contents page I firstly added my masthead into the centre of
my college magazine contents page. I used the lock tool on Photoshop to make sure that
the writing was equal proportions, and not too wide or too long, and by using this tool I
was able to ensure this.

7. To continue on with my magazine contents page design, I added boxes using the shape
tool on Photoshop, and then filled these with a dark grey colour before using the text
tool to add white text onto these. These are the different sections of my magazine, such
as the feature article, the articles that are in every magazine and the special articles.

8. To complete the particular sections of my contents page, I added 5 logos for
Topshop, Matalan, Odeon and New Look because these are 4 places which I feel students
will want to use their student ID as discount.

9. The final adjustment to my college magazine contents page was adding the medium close
up photo of the UEA student for my special feature. I removed the background using the
Photoshop quick selection tool.