This is the main image that I used on my front cover for my magazine. The background of this was a cream wall with a picture frame. This wasn’t a conventional background for an indie magazine so I used the lasso tool to remove this background and make it all white. This makes it look more professional and also shows I know how to use Photoshop.

On my front cover you can see the fonts I have used from font space. Microsoft word helped me set transparent colour on the background so I can place it over the image without it covering it all up, I did this by double clicking on the section I want, clicking on ‘colour’, then ‘set transparent colour’ and clicking on the part that I wanted to be transparent. Microsoft word also helped me put a red background against my white writing to make it stand out more by double clicking on the box, choosing the fill option and deciding on the colour red.

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From my double page spread you can see that word helped me create columns for my article, I did this by using three separate textboxes and then making them the same length and width, this is something that allowed me to make my double page spread look professional. I also learnt how to break up the columns to put my pull quote in between. All I had to do was create a space in the textbox by pressing enter numerous times and then adding the pull quote text in the middle of the space. This is something that is conventional for an indie magazine.

On my contents page I added in lines to separate the page up. I did this by clicking on ‘insert’, then ‘picture’ and lastly ‘auto shapes’ I then selected the shape I wanted and added it in. I already knew how to do this but it did show me lots of different shapes I could of used that I didn’t know about. I also coloured in the bottom box red by double clicking on the box, choosing the fill option and deciding on the colour red.