Music Magazine Screen Grabs

Front Page, Contents Page and Double Page Spread.

• This is the original image that I started the front cover with. I cropped it and selected the background which I then blurred. I did this so the background was not as bold as the model.

• Because the image was very orange, I edited the hue and saturation so that her face went paler and looked less orange. I then placed this image on to and A4 sized file.

• Here, I used brushes to build up a background for the masthead, I used different textured brushes, like splats and scratches to create a grunge kind of look for the rock chick magazine. Then I pasted the masthead on top of the background.

• Here, I made a bottom bar by using different textured brushes. I did this so I could put more information on the front cover over this bar that I have made.

• At this stage, I started to ad more details. I put on the sky line, bar code/date/price and put what other bands are in the magazine. I also had started to put in pull quotes.

• This is the completed front cover. I added many pull lines and quotes on the left third. I changed the ‘TornRose’ font and colour to make it stand out a lot more against the background.

• I began the contents page with an A4 document which I filled black and used brushes to create a textured background. Then I changed the opacity of the brush layers. I then used brushes to make a background for the contents title and for the images. I used scratch brushes for the title and film brushes for the images. I think this worked well.

• I then used brushes again and created another layer for the background to make the page look more busier. Then I used filled a rectangle box with a translucent white so that the text that I put on the page will look clearer.

• Then I added 4 different images, and a ‘This week’ title. I chose to put the images on the film brush because I though that it made the page look organised and it look better.

• I then added a couple of adverts advertising what’s in the magazine. I also then put all the contents on to the page .

• The final touches I did was advertising a free legal download of an album and getting the magazine delivered to your door. I also put web addresses on there like I planned to.

• I started the double pages spread with an A3 landscape document. I then used brushes to create a background. I inserted the image and erased the edge and added a black inner glow. I did this to blend it.

• I then put the name of the band on the side in white. I put ut onto a pink background so it stood out clearly.

• Here I have added a bit of text about the interview and the article's title which I made extremely large to be more eye catching. I also edited the exposure of the images to make it be more striking and stand out.

• This is when I added the text. I did it in three columns and made the questions bold and highlighted in pink. I did the answers in white against the page’s background.

• Here, I have put the final touches on the double page spread. I put: who done the writing and who took the photos, the page numbers and the arrow. Overall I am really pleased with how this has resulted.