DEVELOPMENT DIARY

This is my text that I have decided to put on my front cover. I have decided to put

it in these places because the left side of the magazine will be visible when the magazine is on the shelf.

I added this text b clicking on the T button on the left hand side and drew a text box. I then chose my text size and colour and typed it in. The text at the bottom is 2 separate boxes. I did this so that the two ‘part’ could have smaller line spacing. The original image is on the left and my manipulated image is on the right. I didn’t do much to this. I changed to colour of the shirt he is wearing to black by selecting the paintbrush tool and carefully coloring

it in. To ‘touch up’ the face and make it a bit more clear, I used the ‘clone stamp’ tool which lets me copy a different part of the

photo and ‘draw’ it on the part I want to. Final I used the rubber tool to delete part of the hood so it didn’t get in the way of the text.

I got this barcode from the internet and just placed its layer abouve the rest so it is on top of the other parts. I drew a white box with the drawing tool and then placed text on top of it – I made it that colour so it matchs the barcode beause they are both about the ‘price’.

I also did this with the strapline at the bottom of the page to emphasize it, so that people don’t overlook it.

This is the start of my contents page. The two lines going down the page and the two lines going across the page represent the grid for the ‘rule of thirds’. I am sticking t this because my magazine will then look more professional and everything will be properly in line with everything else instead of doing it by eye. The two different coloured boxes are where my two pictures will go. One will be of my artist and the other will be of some other people who feature in the other elements in the magazine. These colors aren’t final but I’m going to put everything in first and then edit all the colors so they fit the colour scheme.

This is what my final page will look like, apart from I have to put the pictures in. there wasn’t much difference in the tools I used then in the front page because all this was, was text boxes and shapes. I have decided to stick to the skeleton plan because I liked the design of it and none of it looked cramped together. What I am contemplating on is to what I should put at the bottom of the contents page. As you can see here is a big empty white space. I think I might design my own banner for something like the competition on the front, to add more realism to the page.

This is my final contents page. All that’s changed from the last one is that I have put in my two pictures that I took and put some text on top of them so that user can easily see which picture has which page with it.

I haven’t done many shots for this page because I didn’t do much apart from put text and pictures on this page so it wasn’t anything different that I hadn’t done in the previous pages. Although I did edit the bottom picture because my brother had some clothing on that I needed to get rid of:

I wanted to get rid of the blue bit of shirt that was hanging down under the hoodie because it didn’t look right In the picture because you couldn’t se the rest of the blue shirt.

This is another picture that I edited a bit. What I did was changed the color of the shirt and tie to black to better suit my color scheme. I also ‘fixed up’ the face a bit so there weren’t as many defects. And this was the final outcome:

I also got rid of the white fasteners (off the hoodie) and reflected the image the other way because it better suited my front page.