Preliminary Task

 

Once I had planned my draft copy I then went on to create my final piece for my school magazine cover on Photoshop. I had never used Photoshop before so I had a lesson just to focus on how to use the basis tools on the program. Once I played around with random images that I got from Google I started to pick up how to use it. I think it was useful to practise my skills on Photoshop on my preliminary task because I now think that I will be able to make my final music magazine cover to a better standard. Below I have posted a picture of my final piece for my school magazine;

 

As you can see from looking at my final piece I had to make a few changes to how I originally planned it to look on my draft cover. I was able to get the masthead in the correct position and colour that I originally planned as well as the school logo photo that I took myself. I am not too happy with the way that I cut out and removed the logo from the background of the photo, however now I know how to do it I will be able to do it better next time I try. I wasn’t planning on making any changes to my draft copy but when I then tried to create it on Photoshop I found out that I was unable to have it the way I wanted it. This is because I originally planned to have my main image taking up the whole background and then placing the other cover line stories and font on top of it, but I wasn’t able to do this as it was very difficult to see the writing as it blended into the background photo too much. That is why I then changed my plan and added a rectangle at the bottom using the same colour as the red background at the top of the page so that now it is a lot more visible. the same issue happened when I tried to place the cover line photos on top of the main image, so I decided to put a black rectangle behind them to make them stand out against the red background and to make them look more bold. I also added the date to the top of my magazine cover as I forgot to put it on my draft copy. Then the final change that I made was not including the bar code, this is because I realised after doing my draft copy that this magazine should be free for the students to read and take home to their parents so the bar code would be unnecessary.

Although I made changes that I didn’t originally want, I am still happy with the way my magazine cover turned out as I think it looks more professional this way than what it would have done if I copied my draft.