Screen shots of my front cover,contents and double page spread

These are my screen shots of my double page spread, they were done on Quark they are the only 2 screen shots that i managed to get. The screen shot at the bottom is before i added all of the detail and writting, once i'd added the writting i had to fiddle around with the stand first, quote and heading. This image that i used for my double page spread had to be cropped because at the side it had a lot of free space that wouldnt fit into the box for my picture.

These are my two print screens of my cntents page, the bottom picture is before i added colour and bold lettering to make it more exciting. Since i have now changed my font of the front cover title i now have to change the font on this contents page. i have no taken all of the full stops out after the numbers to make it look more like a professional magazine. 

This is my original phot that i first ever put onto to photoshop. thios is my first layer, which all my writting will be one.

This is my second print screen that i created because i have added my barcode, and $ of my coverlines. i done this by adding the barcode as a photo then correcting it to the right size. i have also added the font for the title and the coverline. the colour that i choosen was red because red yellow and white and black are in indie magazine, i found out this through my magazine research.

This print screen is where i started to add more colour i added the colour yellow because this is in my colour sceme, and add my main coverling "Alex Mcdonald". I used the italic tool to make the writting underneith my main headline slanted.

This stage is where i started to move my cover lines round a lot more, and also started to make this bold to make them stand out. i done this with the B tool on the left hand side of the page on photoshop. At this point i still think that my magazine still look eally bare and that i need more coverlines.

This is where my front cover starts to look much fuller i think. i have changed the font and size of my masthead becasue i think that the heading before wasnt good or bold enough for a music magazine. I'm happy with the change i made because i think that it stands out a lot more and it gives the magazine a bit more character and makes it more exciting to look at. i've also added another colour (white) and started to bold and italic things to make them stand out, also i have moved most of the cover lines to the left.

Here is where my magazine starts to look really good in my opinion because everything has come together and i have added a circular graphic in the top right hand corner. i dont this by the shape tool and then enlarging it to the size i was happy with, then i added text inside tghe graphic. the reason why i used the graphic is because i wanted to emphasise the fact that their was a free poster inside. Ive made all of the main parts in my coverlines bold and white and size 28pt whereas the other parts of my coverlines are 24pt and not bold. I have also added a drop shaddow on all of my coverlines and my heading, which is done by clicking on the layer at the right hand side of the screen. this is to add more detail and effect to my coverlines. so they are more intersesting and eye grabbing.

this is now my final print screen and its my finsihed version of my front cover, i have changed the front cover image because this image works much better on the front cover as ally is giving direct adress. i done this by creating a new layer and editing and cropping his head out on photoshop, so his head fits over my title "FANATIC". i did this by using the eraser tool on photoshop, i found this very hard as its really fiddley.

this is now my final version of my contents page. im really happy with this now becasue i have removed an image off ally and moved the insturments down so i could add an image of a live festival from summer into the middle. this makes it look much more like a music magazine. i done this on quark by simply moving the images and text boxes around. the clicking on "scale picture to fit box".