By Debbie Onyemelukwe

The feedback I received was to re-design the first draft of the double page spread. This included changing the main image as it was too small and didn’t take up the whole page, to split the text into separate columns and use the original family image somewhere else on the page.

Upon acting on this feedback, I had to re-shoot the model, re-edit the image and change parts of the layout.

Although I had to re-design my double page spread, I wasn’t totally

starting from scratch as I still had my original spread (as seen in the top

right hand corner) to use as reference.

The biggest change I had to work with was the image alteration as this

picture would now take up the whole page, limiting the amount of space I had to work with on the left page.

Using the original spread as a guide, the majority of change would be the layout, as the components within the

spread would stay the same.

Somehow during the photo shoot, both the

model and I managed to miss the fact the model’s

flies were undone. Having noticed this

whilst completing my spread, the image

underwent some editing with the Clone Stamp

Tool. I used this tool to essentially colour in the

parts that weren’t supposed to be ‘open’. The trousers now look

normal and will not draw any negative attention to

the reader.

Having already had the article title, leading text, the slug, the actual

article, the anchor and the extra details at the bottom of the page, I played

around with the positions of where they all should be. The image to the left is an example

of one of the possible layouts I came across when

experimenting.

After arranging the components of my spread onto the pages in an appropriate way, I then opened four more family-orientated photos onto

Photoshop. I had to resize them and cut them down to an appropriate size and to do this I used the Crop Tool. This tool enabled me to choose the

section of the image that I wanted to appear on my spread. Choosing the size was rather important as I needed to think about the sizing in relation

to the amount of space I had available.

After cropping the images down to an appropriate size, the next step was to add the frame around them. This step took slightly longer as I needed to use the get the photos onto PowerPoint in order to use the frame effect it has. After applying the frame onto the images, I then

copied and pasted them onto my page on Photoshop and arranged them around the text.

This was the original main double page spread image, however from receiving my feedback, it has now become yet another component that is part of the whole spread. However, because it is the image that is most relevant to the article, I put it separate to the other, on top of the main

image on the left page to draw attention to it.

I added the sellotape in order to give the spread a creative sense. The sellotape along

with the slant of the pictures gives the effect as if a person has pasted these pictures onto the

page.

I got this effect from using the Brush Tool and then loading the brushes that

are available on my school system. The one I chose

was ‘Tape Tizzape’ which gave me a variety of

sellotape effects to choose from.

Slug

Image

Anchor

As demonstrated in the previous slide, the layout of my spread follow the classic ‘C’ shape magazine arrangement. The slug seen in the top right corner, the image on the left page and the anchor at the bottom right hand corner of the page are all situated in positions which correlate with the reader’s typical eye flow.

I decided to go with this convention as I broke the usual front cover convention with the gaze of the model looking down.