My Progress in Photoshop

 I took my photo at Myton Bridge in Hull. It took a few tries and had to go back to take them a couple of times. In order to get my colour scheme I looked at some older magazines and picked some colours that I thought would work well together.

I used two separate text boxes so that I can change the font of the mast head.

 I used the layer style effect to change the writing. Although I changed the font of the mast head, I used the same effect on the different text boxes. I used the drop shadow and the inner shadow to form a black line around the title to make it stand out against the background image. I made it quite thick so that it would be easily seen.

I used the rectangle tool to make a banner at the bottom of the page. I pinpointed the colour of the mast head for the competition writing. I found a picture of the logo for Avril Lavigne's album and chose the pink off there and adjusted it to make it my own shade. I changed the levels on the picture to make it more dark and make it seem more gritty which would enhance the effect of it being a rock music magazine.

I used a bar code generator to make the barcode in the corner, rotated it and placed it in the corner. I used the same colour that i used for the sell line for the issue number and price. I looked around at the typical prices for music magazines and used the most used one.

I used the text box and chose the same font that i used for the 'Rock'. I used the layer style options for this in exactly the same way i did for the mast head.

For the black Splash i used the custom shape tool and selected the explosion style one. I used two separate text boxes over the top of it and wrote the texts. With the 'Tour date guide' I pin pointed the red from the mast head, I used the drp shadow and the inner shadow but this time did them different shades of red so that it looked 3d. I did the same for the pink of the sell line.

I used 3 different text boxes to make the band name. I used the pink from the sell line, the red from the mast head and found a different colour that was between them both. I chose a soft font font for the 'sugar' and a sharp font for the 'spice'. With the 'n' I chose a font that was a bit of both.

With the 'sugar' and the 'spice' i did the same effects as I did for the story in the corner. For the 'n' I made it more 3d and made it stand out by adding a bevel to it.

I took the advice from my teacher and put 3 black boxes around my band name to make it stand out even more.