7) Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

College Magazine:                                                                            Final Magazine:

During this project i have used many effects in photoshop for example editing images was one of the uses, i also edited text to make it appear bolder and also i used it for adding colour to the magazine itself. I think that during the preliminary task i didnt have much knowledge in creating a magazine but as i progressed through the course for the main task i felt more confident this is why the main task looks more like a magazine that you would buy in a shop. Unlike the college prelimunary task which doesnt look that catchy at all. I dont think that the college magazine front cover is as good as the music mazine front cover as it doesnt look professional like a magazine should. For the college magazine i didnt experiment that much with photoshop execept for the main image as i found it to look very boring and dull. To edit this image i used a sharpening filter so that the edges of all the little details would be brought out more. Then i used the burn tool this really helped the image have a more define colour to it. For the masthead of the college magazine i used a bubbley font as i thought that this would best relate to college students, to make it look more define i added a blending option to it, the blending option i added was stroke as this gave the masthead a more bold outline to help it get noticed. I also used another blending option onto the masthead and this was bevel and emboss as i felt that this gave the writing  glossy kind of tone to it. When i added the coverlines to the front of the college magazine i made them very large writing and added the blending option of stroke around the text itself. This really didnt look to good as it brought your attention of the masthead and the main image. For my final magazine i used photoshop for everything i did, firstly i used it to edit the main picture on the magazine itself. To edit this image i used the clone stamp tool and this helped get rid of some of the blemises so that when i used the burn toll they wouldnt look like dark patches on the skin. I used the burn tool to help give the skin a glow to it, so she would seem fasinating and might convince people to buy the magazine. Then i used the paint tool but i used very low opacity so that the colour would be soild, i used the paint tool to enhance the colour of the lips so she would look more like the audience that i was trying to aim it at. I also used photoshop to creat my masthead, i did this by using a bubbly font to make it bold, then i added two colours to the text of blue and pink and this was displayed as everyother colour. I made the text look even bolder by adding the same colour stroke to it form the blending options this really helped it standout. I used the same colours as the mast head to creat my coverlines and on this magazine cover compared to that college magazine cover i used smaller text as i feel that this gave the masthead and the main image a more eye catchy effect. For the college magazine i used quite a large font and all different bright colours with a big thick black outline around them, i think that this didnt make the coverlines look like coverlines i think that this made them look more like blodges on the page. I think that this really wouldnt help the selling point of the college magazine itself. I also used a shape tool as i felt that adding a different shape to the front cover will grab people's attention. Over all i think that my Final magazine is better then my college magazine as i have had more experiance now in using photoshop. I feel that my skills have developed alot during the year as i have become more confident in using photoshop itself.