3. I have chosen this photo to be my main
cover photo and to do so, I had to edit it
so it was the right size because I had
planned on it being a medium close up. I
cropped it first and used the lasso tool so
it was just her head and shoulders and
then used the quick selection tool to copy
and paste it as another layer so I had two
layers. I then changed the background
layer to black and white and blurred so
that her face was more in focus. I then
clicked on layer 1 which was just her face
and shoulders and made it brighter and
also increased the contrast.
This is the final edited photo.
Edited Photo
Original Photo
Layers

4. After I hade finished the editing of the photograph I
was going to use, I added my masthead. I made it
big and bright at the top of the cover to stand out.
Because I had made the photograph as two layers, I
was able to put the masthead behind the cover
models head but in front of the background so you
couldn’t see a little bit of the text. I tried it in front
of the cover model but I didn’t like it as much. To
make the masthead, I used a website to find good
strong fonts to use. I then downloaded the one I
liked best and imported it to Photoshop. On photo
shop, I added a text box, wrote the word SOLO and
changed it to the font that I had downloaded and
imported.
I next added a bright green star using the shape
tool with the words ‘1ST EDITION’ inside by
including a text box. This was to show the reader
that this was the first SOLO magazine that was
produced. I moved them so they were in a good
position based on my plan by using the move tool.

5. After adding the star, I added the date, price and
issue number of the magazine. I added this because
then the reader would know how much to pay for it
and if they have missed an issue. I used the text
box tool and placed it the other side of the cover
model.
The next thing I did was a big thing. I started to add
the artists name in big letters to stand out and
added a line of green for the background and
decreased the opacity of it so it wasn’t to bold. I
think that this made it look good and better than it
would have looked if I had kept the opacity high. I
made the rectangle using the shape tool and
dragged it to whereabouts I wanted it and the
shape I wanted. I moved it to the place I wanted it
based on what I had drawn on my sketches. On the
shape, I also added a drop shadow at the bottom of
it so i fades out instead of just a bold line. I made
the lettering yellow which stood out from the green
as it was brighter and so the reader knew who the
main article was about.

6. The next thing I did was add the smaller taglines
that goes with the artists name ‘DANIELLE LITTLER’.
I did this because I thought i would attract the
reader and also tell them a bit of what the article
was going to be about. I think that this was an
important piece of information for the magazine to
have so I tried to make it so people would want to
read it. I used text boxes to do this and used the
move tool for where I wanted them to be after
looking at my sketch.
After I thought the main article tag line was done, I
started to add more taglines but about different
things that the read would find inside. I tried to
make the bright in contrast with the background
and also to again attract more readers to different
things that they may like included such as ‘FREE CD’
and a ‘GIG GUIDE’ etc. I used these because I
thought this is what young adult readers would
enjoy to know as they are popular with this kind of
audience. I again used the text box and move tool
to create them and put them where I wanted based
on my plan. I also added a barcode as I felt it was
needed. This is the final outcome.

8. To start my contents page off, I first added the title
of the page and also the magazine name but
smaller than I did on the cover. I placed the word
‘SOLO’ to the left of the ‘Contents’ text but higher
up which I thought was good. I used a font for the
word ‘Contents’ that I had found in the list, but I
wanted the text that said ‘SOLO’ to be in the same
style as the cover. To do this I imported the text
onto Quark as well and found it in the list of fonts I
could use.
Next I added the star and ‘1ST EDITION’ text that I
had the cover because I didn’t want the to be a
small white space at the top corner as it would look
boring. To add this, I copied and pasted it on from
photo shop so it was the exact same colour and
size. I also added the month of the magazine using
a text box and a green line to border it off from the
rest of the page using the shape tool. To make it
that colour I created a new colour in the list at the
side and found one that I thought suitable for my
colour scheme. I think this also made the page look
good.

9. The next thing I did was add photographs that I had
taken in the two photo shoots I did. The chose
three that I thought the reader would be intrigued
about including photo for the main article. I wanted
two of the photographs to be the same size, but
the main one bigger to stand out as it was the main
article in the magazine. I had to import the images
from my folders from each of the photo shoots that
I did.
I next added page numbers on two green lines
going down up to the number I wanted in the
magazine. To create the green lines, I used the
shape tool and dragged to where and how big I
wanted them to be. I then used the same colour as
I did before for the other rectangle I had created. I
also put page numbers on the photographs in white
text using a text box to stand out and the number
being what page I want them on.

10. I next added a box where I wanted the Editor note
to go and included a small title in yellow and
orange text to stand out from the green that I had
chosen. I also wrote the text that I wanted a placed
it inside the green box. I found the font for the title
of this feature in the list I had on Quark but made it
different from the other text as it was a message
from the editor which I felt was important to stand
out. For the rest of the text, I used the same font
from the other bits of text and created two text
boxes. To make them go from one to the other, I
linked them together so if I went over in the first
box, it would immediately go over to the second
text box I had linked it to.
The last thing I added was the contents of the
magazine. I put the titles of the pages in line with
the page numbers and in bold black text. I then put
a small blurb with each of them to tell the reader
more information of what’s actually on the page.
For this, I again created two text boxes and linked
them up so if it went over in the first, it would go
straight to the second one linked to it. This is the
final outcome.

12. At the start of creating my double page spread, the
first thing I put on it was the main photograph
cover the whole of the left side. I had edited this
photograph to make the artist brighter and
increase the contrast. To add this, I imported it into
Quark and made it the size I wanted to be and
moved it using the move tool to where I wanted it
based on my plan.
I next added the title of the page at the top which
was her name because it would help the reader
find the page quicker if they were flipping through
the magazine. I also made the first name and
second name a different colour from each other
and the same style text as the masthead on the
from cover. To create these, I used two text boxes. I
wanted them both to be the same font so because I
had already imported it, it was on the list of fonts
that I could use. I then changed the colour of them
both.

13. Next, I added the text. Because the two pages were
set up in three columns, all I had to do was add text
boxes to the right size and make it three columns of
text. I imported the article that I had written on
Microsoft Word onto Quark and into the three text
boxes I had created. I did not need to add a
runaround to these.
The next thing I did was add extra images from the
photo shoot. I imported them and moved them to
where I wanted them using the move tool. For the
black and white photograph, I edited that to make
it look like her actual new album which the article
was about. I edited it on photo shop by changing
the colours and adding text to where the alum
name and artist name would be.

14. What I did next was add text from the article that
would stand out and a small blurb to the article. I
moved the text boxes to where I wanted them
using the move tool and because one of them went
of the actual article, I modified that text box the
make it a run-around text box. This means that
wherever I placed that text box, the things that it
would normally be on top would go around it and
so this is what happened when I modified it like
this.
I was originally going the leave the double page
spread as it was in the last screen shot but I felt
that it was missing something. Because of this I
thought that adding a faint background to it would
give it a complete look. To use the background on
this screenshot, I had to create it. To create it I used
Photoshop and used the shape tool on that. It gave
me options of what shape and because this was an
autumn magazine and the colour scheme was
orange, yellow, green and brown to match the
photo shoot, I thought a leaf pattern would be
appropriate. I made the leaves a faint colour that
you would be able to read the text above on which
took me a while because every colour that I used, I
had to change the text colour to see if you could
read it. I eventually found the right colours that you
could read it on and this is the final outcome.