Final Magazine

Final Draft

The use of drafts has allowed me too look at how I have improved my magazine along the way. I'm able to look at my other drafts and see what I have done to make my magazine look better and note what changes I can make on my recent draft to make my Final Magazine look as professional as possible.

Magazine Evaluation

Using Photoshop

This week I looked at different ways to make the photos I took much better to look at. The images I took seemed to look darker than what they were supposed to look like, I knew I’d have to change this if I wanted to make my magazine look more professional. To make the images better I went on Photoshop and used the brightness/contrast to make the image lighter. Using the level also allowed me to adjust the brightness and how much of the shadow I wanted to add. For the main image I took away part of the background as it didn’t go well with the white background theme I was intending on having for my magazine.

social media

This week I looked at what social media websites I could include in my magazine. I looked at what would interest my target audience. Because my magazine is as music magazine I looked at what websites are music based. I thought of using: spotify, soundcloud and youtube. I looked at what social media my target audience would be interested in and I thought of having my magazine have a facebook page and twitter page. This would be a faster way for my target audience to get information about the magazine and what’s going to be on the next month’s issue. This would be an effective way to update the readers on the magazine as they tend to be on the internet often and looking up what’s relevant on their social media websites.

Photoshop

This is footage showing how I was able to enhance my images using Photoshop before I added them to my magazine on Indesign. Taking a video of how I was able to make my images better shows how my skills have developed since I started Foundation Portfolio.

Sketches

Having these sketches enabled me to visualise how I wanted my magazine to look and how I wanted the layout to look. By doing sketches it meant that I had planned ahead, which in turn meant that my magazine would look more professional as I had thought things through when considering what my target audience would like.