Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Magazine Production

I was very inexperienced with photoshop and had only used it briefly on my induction days. I started off to my complete suprise slighly comfortable, because with some help I managed to import my cover picture and chop down to size and put it on the blank page. I then started to write the sub-headings on my page and had managed okay to set them out around the page. The reason for this was because I remembered to keep layering my work. That's when I made a real blunder, which to an extent did ruin some of my work. I had coloured the background, but it didn't look particularly good, and I had also just put my title on as well. The issue was that now I had locked the title and background so I change or remove. The problem was that the sky blue was a terrible contrast and ruined the rest of the cover and made it look very generic and plain. I also spent too much time trying to fix this problem, until I was told it was unchangable so because of this I had to rush through my contents page.

As for contents page, I at least learnt from my previous mistakes and concentrated more throughout and carefully layered everything. I quickly (with some help though) managed to cut out and import some images onto the contents page. I then added a new layer and put on a dark blue background. With the final outcome of the cover in the back of my mind, I kept remembering to add new layers everytime I did something, I was rapidly running out of time, so I had a quick look at my plan and listed all the page numbers with a brief description of the whats on the page.

My magazine was now completed and though after a good start i finished off disappointed with it, I had learnt a lot from it, I then just had to upload the magazine onto my blog.

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