Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your magazine?

Here is the short video that shows how I created my front cover.

First I added my key image which had already been edited, followed by the masthead which I added a shadow to to make it stand out. I put the date and price in the first letter of the masthead so that it could be easily seen.

Next I added the cover lines, which also have shadows on them, and made sure that they were in the correct fonts and colours.

Then I added all other text, including the ‘plus’ section at the bottom of the page and the free posters with a few listed artists. I also added a barcode in the bottom right corner, and then my magazine cover was finished.

Contents page:

Feature article:

I edited my key image on the feature article by firstly changing the eyes to be brighter, as they are the first thing you will see when looking at the magazine, therefore they needed to be as bright as possible.

I used the dodge tool to brighten the iris.

Then I used the burn tool to go over dark areas, such as the pupil, around the edge of the iris, and the eyelashes. I also made the eyelashes slightly longer with this tool.

Here you can see the difference between the edited eye and the unedited eye.

Once both the eyes were edited, I edited the photo as a whole, changing the brightness, contrast and the curves, making the photo even more striking.