preliminary task

we were set a preliminary task to give us more practice before we got to our main task of making a music magazine double spread. The task was to make a front page and contents for a school magazine using photoshop. We used many of the skills we had learnt up until this point to make our task as successful as possible. It was difficult to use photoshop for such long periods of time as it can become quite stressful, but as i came to grips with it I used it to my full ability. I managed to make a front cover as good as i wanted and i feel it has helped me incredibly on the way to making my music magazine double spread. It also gave me more confidence on using photoshop.

Researching a dance magazine

in our lesson we were made to research a magazine consisting of magazines such as, pop, dance etc. I chose to do dance as this is a genre of music in which im interested in. We were made to research these magazines so that we could put our research into our own magazines to make them as good as possible. we learnt alot of useful information such as language used in the magazine this consisted of language that was young, almost quite like slang, words were used such as sick, this means good in the dance world. We also learnt about how to use our pictures from looking at these magazines as they had used them in a differnet way in which i would have before i looked at them. Colours in the magazine were also useful to look at as this can be a big part as to wether the magazine will be successfull or not. This magazine used a lot of funky colours this worked well for the magazine as it reminded me of clubs and dancing which is obviously the genre its supposed to cover. I will take all of this information into consideration when designing and making my magazine as im sure it will help to make it as good as possible.

Photoshop tutorial

On Friday 30th of January, our class had a photoshop tutorial from the ICT technician Mark. He explained all the different things we could use to edit our pictures. He also showed us how to have different layers of the magazine we are designing, so if ever you make a mistake, you do not have to start from the beginning, you can just go on to the original layer of the work.He also explained that when cutting a picture out from another picture, and putting it into the original, you have to use the tool called lasoo, but also, you have to heighten the percentage that the picture is feathered, because if not, then the edges will be really rough.
I feel that i learnt a lot from this lesson but just watching and listening isnt really enough for me therefore i will have a go myself with the proggramme therefore i can see how to use it how in a way that really suits me.