To start my design for my front cover I added my mast head onto a plain white A4 background in Photoshop. I designed my mast head using fonts from ‘dafont.com’. I wanted the font to stand out, but also be simple and easy to read whilst on the front of my magazine. I also wanted it to reflect the style and design of the magazine, which I feel it does.

Next I added the medium close up photograph of my models. At this stage I decided to remove the male model from the photo using the eraser tool, because I felt the photo looked better with just girls on the front as it looked more balanced. I used the eraser tool to carefully go round the edge of both of the female models because the selection tool did not effectively select the edge of the models.

To continue on with my magazine front cover design I added boxes using the shape tool on Photoshop, and then filled these with a dark grey colour before using the text tool to add white text onto these.

Next I moved the background across, leaving a gap at the edge of the left hand side of my magazine. I then used the fill tool on Photoshop to fill this gap and used the select colour tool to select the same colour as I used in the boxes.

The final adjustment to my magazine design was adding the barcode. I created the barcode on an online generator, saved it as a JPEG and then imported this into Photoshop before deciding where on my magazine to place it.

To start my design for my contents page I firstly added my masthead into the centre of my college magazine contents page. I used the lock tool on Photoshop to make sure that the writing was equal proportions, and not too wide or too long, and by using this tool I was able to ensure this.

To continue on with my magazine contents page design, I added boxes using the shape tool on Photoshop, and then filled these with a dark grey colour before using the text tool to add white text onto these. These are the different sections of my magazine, such as the feature article, the articles that are in every magazine and the special articles.

To complete the particular sections of my contents page, I added 5 logos for Topshop, Matalan, Odeon and New Look because these are 4 places which I feel students will want to use their student ID as discount.

The final adjustment to my college magazine contents page was adding the medium close up photo of the UEA student for my special feature. I removed the background using the Photoshop quick selection tool.