Creating my magazine: BackgroundTo start off, I edited the background in order for it to be slightly more exiting than the standard white. To do this, I double clicked on this. This brought up the layer style box. This then enabled me to change the colour of the background to a colour that I though was appropriate. After doing this, I thought this colour combination worked the best:

This is how the background looked after applying the changes, without the rest of the text and images on it, as well as with them:

Creating my magazine: Editing my images

In order to remove the background which I didn’t want on my magazine, I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut myself out from the image. To remove any uneven areas that the magnetic lasso missed, I selected the eraser tool and set it to a fine number in order to remove any pixels that were out of place and made the image look unprofessional.

Creating my magazine: Text + MastheadFor the main text I decided to go for a burgundy colour as I think it went with the background quite nicely. I used the Eras Demi ITC font which I used for the main text within my magazine too. I positioned it around the main image And aligned it rather than tilting it as it looked much more professional that way. I had to re-size pieces of text in order for them to fit around the image. I also changed the colour to a similar one that I used in my masthead. For the text inside the magazine, I thought white was the best colour to look appealing over the darker background. I think it worked very well as reading the text is very east and there is no requirement to squint etc. to see what is written.