Contents Page Screen Grab

Here is an image of my contents page in the making.

This contents page includes an editor's note, images of whats inside my magazine and a little list of whats in the magazine. It also has a little advert for t-shirts and a few visuals I drew and made on photoshop.

Extra visuals 2

Here are a few more extra visuals I created as I was tweeking my final magazine.

The first one is this image of a t-shirt I created which has an image of the cover art for one of my band's albums it is called 'Swimming with Astro Sharks' I created it to be part of an addvertismet to promote the band.





With this second image of Jimi Hendrix I was origionally going to just get an image of him off the internet but I then found out that all of my images have to be self taken or self made so I just got the nearest thing to draw on which was a piece of cardboard from a shoe box and drew Jimi on it and scanned it in. I then cropped it to the right size on publisher and added it to my contents page, I actually think the cardboard gives a nice effect.

Double page spread Screen Grabs

Here are a couple of screenshots of my double page spread drafts which will be going in to my magazine once tweeked a little more.

This is the first page of my double page spread. to make this got the image of the shark which I altered on photoshop and then I layed out the whole thing on publisher. I then pasted the writing which I had on another file and I added the images above it.

This page gives us a little bit of backround on the band and what they have achieved in so little time.



The second page has the interview with the band as well as some more images, it also has a little box with gig and tour information.

Intro Pages Screen Grabs

As well as doing a double page spread I have also added an 'intro spread' for my double page spread because I thought this would be just like how it is donbe in real magazines plus I had a bunch of extra images!

The first page just gives us a little intro to tell us what we are about to read and generally the baisic jist of whats coming up.

The second page tells us who the band and that they are a new sensation who are taking the worlds attention by storm... you know the usual!

Front Cover Screen Grabs

Here are a couple of screen shots I took of the process of making a draft of my final cover.

This screenshot shows me working on the front cover in photoshop, I have added the title, the backround and the image of the shark which I talked about a couple of posts ago. to make It look really nice an professional I have added shadow to everything to give it a nice 3-d effect.

I then moved the work I did on photoshop on to publisher so I could add images and text. I moved it to publisher because my images and text showed up much clearer and nicer in publisher than they do in photoshop and it was they are just easier to manipulat using publisher.

Magazine Pictures

I have finally taken the pictures I needed of my made up band and I can now start to put together a final magazine!

I took a few pictures of my friends as well as myself because we are the members of the band I made up. we are in a bunch of crazy and silly poses because these are the types of poses I see alot in music magazines and because I want to make this look like a real magazine that you would find in the shops I thought that these poses would work the best.

When I start to make my magazine I will pick out the best images and I will corpthem to the sizes they need to be.

Extra Visuals

For the magazine I have come up with a few extra visuals such as band logos and front cover art for albums and here I will be showing a few that I have com up with.















This is an image of part of the cover art for one of my band's albums called 'Swimming with Astro Sharks'. What I did was I drew a picture of the logo and then scanned it in to my laptop, the image on the right of the photoshop window is of a previous design I did a while ago on paint which in my opinion does not look that good so what I did was I got the origional scan and I coloured it in on photoshop which now look alot better.

To create this image I used paint, the dodge tool, the burn tool, the patch tool, the blend tool, the smudge tool, the heal tool andf the magnetic lasso tool which I can say from experience is a far better range that paint! I enjoy using photoshop very much and this was alot of fun to create.