Final product progression

It can easily be seen that in my preliminary task both the front cover and the contents pages look simple and don’t appeal to any one in particularly.

Preliminary Magazine

New FrontCover

My original front cover only features one image which represents a college student; however it doesn’t look professional enough to be in a magazine, my new photo is done much better with a higher standard of quality and links with the theme a lot more.

The font and colours are also much better, before it was just bright colours to capture the eye but didn’t fit in with ‘college life’, now the fonts are more related to the theme of dub-step music and has more fitting colours that can be associated with magazine.

The layout is more professional, without any bank or wasted space making it easier on the eye whereas before the text and masthead looked like they were just thrown in wherever they could fit and leaving out blank spaces.

New Front Cover

New Contentspage

The contents page has also vastly improved. I now have pictures in the contents page to help give the reader a break instead of having only text in the page, the background is now only one colour instead of a bunch of colours mixing together, the text is now placed properly giving it a more professional look with page numbers telling the reader where he will find the article they wish to see.

The foreground of the page with all the information now sits well with the contrasting background and is more legible. The page now has a suitable layout with each section of the page having its own purpose and no wasted space.

New Contents Page

I learned many things while creating the final look of my magazine which made it more professional. For starters I learned how to manipulate the image a lot better, allowing me to remove the background and leaving only what was necessary on the page, I also learned how to align text which made the information on the contents page easier to make and look correctly.

I used a lot of tools and techniques to make my magazine look more appealing to my audience such as Gaussian blur to make the white text boxes blend into the background and not make the reader focus on it. I also used a simple which doesn’t strain the eyes making it easy and faster top read.

The final thing that helped me to make the magazine more appealing to the audience was simple image manipulation, I changed the colours and added layer effects to both the foreground and background of my pages giving it a better look and allowing the reader to appreciate it, while not focusing on it and not the articles and information.

Use of Photoshop