The document describes the design process for a double page magazine spread. The designer initially found the background too dull and the blue block too dominant. They added a brush texture to the background and a pull quote to break up the text. The pull quote text was adjusted to match the body text. Columns were justified and made the same width for professionalism. A pattern brush was downloaded and used to subtly break up the background color. Font selection involved screenshotting and pasting the desired font before removing the background.

2. This shows my initial double page spread design. I decided once I’d designed this that the
background looked quite dull and the block of colour looked too much blue. I also think
the main text body needs breaking up a bit.

3. After my previous design I decided that I would add a brush to the background too break
up the colour a bit. I also decided to add a pull quote to break up the text and interest the
readers more. A page number was also added in the bottom right hand corner.

4. My previous designs pull quote was worded slightly different from the actual wording
tin the main body of text. I decided the pull quote was interesting, so changed the
main body of text to match the pull quote.

5. I decided that the double page spread would look more professional if the columns were
the same size and the text was justified in the columns. Therefore I justified the
text, meaning the columns on the left page were exactly the same width. I also changed
the text around the photo so that there was a gutter, improving the visibility of the DPS.

7. Throughout the design process of my music magazine front
cover, contents page and double page spread one of the main
Photoshop features I have used is the outer glow. I feel this
has really helped my font to stand out and look more
professional. Without this feature I feel my magazine would
have looked boring and very flat but I think the outer glow has
really helped bring out the words in my music magazine.

8. Another process I used during the design work of my music magazine was the colour
overlay. This is a really useful design feature on Photoshop which meant that I could
ensure all my text was black, because the text I used had very fine lines which were hard
to fill using the paint bucket tool.

9. When designing my double page spread I realised that
the background looked a little dull with it all being one
colour, so I decided to use the brush tool on Photoshop
to add a subtle pattern to the background to break up the
colour.
I added this pattern to
the background by
simply downloading a
brush from a brush
website and importing
this into Photoshop. I
then used this in the
same way a paintbrush is
used and simply clicked
wherever I wanted a
music note pattern.

10. The font selection in Photoshop is quite basic and also didn’t provide the style of font I
wanted to use throughout my music magazine. I used an internet site called ‘dafont.com’ to
find my text style to use in my music magazine. Because I couldn’t download the fonts
using the college computers, I simply print screened the font I wanted (I used decibel
throughout my music magazine) and pasted this into my Photoshop document. I then
cropped the print screen to get just the text before using the ‘select colour range’ tool on
Photoshop to remove the white background so I was left with just the text.