Contents page final

I really like my final contents page, it is simple but it also has a lot of things on it. It doesn’t become messy with its content.

I’ve kept the colour scheme consistent and although it took me a VERY LOOOOOOONG time to get the title ‘Inside’ right, I think that it looks great on the page and it looks better than it would have if it was black writing with a white outline.

The photos also really work with the whole page and bring it together to look like a real magazine.

Changes to my DPS

The photos on my contents page.

I got a lot of people speculating about whether I had taken the photos on my contents page myself.

(The circled images are the ones that I was being asked about)

I wanted to make it clear that they are all my images so here are some more of them to show you.

Problems with InDesign

For our Double Page Spreads, we were advised to use the program called InDesign to make it however I had some problems with it.

The above image is of Photoshop and the one below is of InDesign. In InDesign, I could get the same font as the one above however, I could not to the effect of having darker blue lines outlining so it defines the text a bit more.

This means that I had to printscreen the font that I did on Photoshop and import the image to InDesign in order to have that particular type of font.

When I was uploading the images, I started to realise that they were coming out very blurry and pixellated. (You can see this is you click on the photo below.)

This didn't just happen to my photos but also to my font which I imported from Photoshop. 

In conclusion, I decided not to use InDesign and stick with Photoshop.

Contents Page Gone Wrong

When I first started doing my contents page, it looked like the photo below, I printscreened it while I was still working on it so that I could talk about my progress on the blog; however! The next time I tried to load the file onto Photoshop, it didn't work. This was due to the fact that I had not saved the file in the correct format.

Because of this very annoying fact, I had to restart the whole thing again. The photo below is of the finished product. You can see that there is a slight difference between the words 'INSIDE'. I actually think that the one on the final is so much better and neater than the image above.

Front Cover

 This is my front cover of my magazine, I used picmonkey.com to edit the original image before I uploaded it onto Photoshop where I added my text. Like the silly person that I am, I didn't remember to take any screenshots until I had finished the actualcover.
It took me a while to do the fonts but I think that they look very nice and they work well together.

 Although I have finished my front cover now, it may need some tweaking later on.

Changing The Colours

(Quick thing to say that I am very sorry that I haven't updated)
Okay, that's done! Let's get on with the blog.

So I have been using Picmonkey.com to edit my photos for my magazine because it has better effects than Photoshop in my opinion. This helped me as when I asked my artist to come in to do the photo shoot, she didn't have any clothes that were orange or blue so I used Picmonkey to edit them so that they fitted in with my colour scheme.

Original Image:

Edited Image: