Front Cover Update

I had progressed halfway through producing my front cover when a technical problem caused my file to become corrupt and I was unable to open the file properly on neither the school's Photoshop program and my personal Photoshop program at home. This was due to the change in file type when saving it in on my older version of Photoshop making it unopenable on the school's latest version of Photoshop. Although the file in visible on the preview at the bottom of the 'Open' box once opened it appears as a corrupted image with nothing but odd pixels.

Since it is impossible to recover the corrupted file I had no choice but to start over again. This time I will take precautions and save a back-up copy of my front cover as well as a JPEG file if the Photoshop copy fails to open again.

Double Page Spread Update 2

On my double page spread I added a convention which is found in most music magazine double page spreads which is a quote, usually from the artist/band themselves. The quote is the largest text found on any double page spread in order to make it the very first thing that readers will see when they turn the page. In my double page spread the quote is blue and pink, bright colours to match their child-like nature, I gave it a black background in order to make the colours stand out even more rather than leaving them on top of the white background. I used pink to highlight the more outstanding words to catch the readers attention. This is based on KERRANG!'s double page spread where I noticed they used a different colour for the eye-catching words. I made my quote similar to their's by making it slightly askew.
A short amount of text is usually followed after the quote which relates to the quote and ends with a cliffhanger making readers want to read more.

At the top of the page I added a tagline indicating who the featured band is in the magazine. This usually spreads across the whole two pages but due to my design and layout I made it look as though it continues on under the paper layer.

To add to the scrap-book design I created small cellotape pictures on Photoshop and placed them so that half of it goes over the main image and the other half on the background making it look like it has been stuck on. To make the cellotape I used the Polyganol Lasso Tool to make the shape of the tape and then using the brush tool with a dirty hay yellow colour with an opacity of 40% I coloured in the selected shape and for the details I changed the size of the brush and coloured the details in, because of the transparency of the colour the details become more opaque.

Double Page Spread Update

The next step was to create the background for my double page spread. For my design I decided to give it the appearance of a scrap book which is why I cropped my photo in the shape of a piece of cut-out magazine.

In order to make my scrap book design I used the selection tool on left side and slightly past the middle section of the double page spread to fill it with a dark navy colour.
Where the dark navy colour stops I used a previously downloaded brush effect called 'torn paper brushes'.

I then selected the torn paper layer and used another previously downloaded brush called 'old print paper', this gives the torn paper layer a slightly scrunched paper look. I then used the burn tool to darken the edge of the torn paper layer.
Next I placed the main image onto the top layer and added a shadow on the torn paper layer to give the main image a 3D effect.
Because the torn paper layer is above the white background it makes it look as if the torn paper layer is a torn page in the magazine.

Double Page Spread

For my double page spread I decided to use KERRANG! as my reference. Amongst all the double page spreads which I have collected as reference, I have noticed the main convention for every one was the large amount of space that the photos were took up, keeping this in mind I decided to use the left half of my double page spread for images.
I have been using the school's Photoshop program as well as my personal Photoshop program at home. Using my version of Photoshop allows me to use a wider variety of effects and brushes that the school's program does not have. Before I start my double page spread I had to pick which photo I wanted to use for the main image and edit it. I decided to choose this one.

The reason why I chose this photo is because the girl band have a 'child-like nature' which will be noted in the information included on the double page spread.

I first used the saturation tool to enhance the colours of clothing, hair, eyes and lips. Any incorrect colours were changed with the colour replacement brush tool. Finally I adjusted the contrast to make the light colours lighter and the dark colours darker.
After I finished correcting and improving the photo I cropped the photo into a shape which resembles a cut-out piece of magazine for the intended design of the image compilation. This is what my photo now looks like.

Contents Page Update

Whilst following the conventions of a contents page that I had seen in the MOJO music magazine I added a big 'Ampz' title along the top also with a smaller 'Diva Edition' text next to it. I then added a small tag underneath the title containing the date the issue came out and which issue it is.

I then moved onto the necessary convention of a contents page which is the list of articles representing the topics included in the magazine. The style of my list of articles is similar to KERRANG!, the reason why I chose KERRANG!'s style is because it allows the text to be more readable against the background when the texts have a block of colour behind it which contrasts against the background colours. Just like lists of articles found on contents pages the text following the bigger title of the topic it is always smaller, this is so that readers' attentions are caught by the slightly bigger title of the topic and are then given a small taste of what the information that the topic will include thus making them want to read on.

Contents Page

For my contents page I decided to make mine familiarize to MOJO's contents page where they have a main image for the whole page. I used an image I had taken in the school hall where a large section of the hall's stage is in the background.

Before using the photo I edited the colours to look more attractive. I used the saturating tool to enhance the colours of the hair, clothing, eyes and lips. To finish the photo edit I added a purple/sepia filter giving the photo a slightly vintage appearance.

This is the finished image. After I finished editing the photo I added black bars with a white outline at the bottom of the page and the top.