I used photoshop to create my front cover of my magazine however I think in the future I would use in design when I am actually sorting the layout as I wanted to have the text on both sides and aligned up against the side of the magazine however on photo-shop this was a long task however when I did the text on my contents page it was much easier to do, I am unfamiliar with inDesign so I think I will try to learn more about this before I do my music magazine.
I made the image for my front cover fill the front cover as well as I could however despite this it was a couple of cm short therefore I copied the top of the image so that I didn't have a gap or that the image was stretched. I made the images smaller and cropped the images for my contents page as the college magazines I looked at had several images down the side, If I did this again I would use more images of a similar shape as some of the images were hidden by another image quite a lot and others not so much.
The font size on the front of my magazine is the biggest font I have used anywhere in my magazine. However I think that I should have used a slightly larger font on the sub-stories but there was a variation in the size of the font that you could clearly see the name of the magazine and it stood out. On the contents page I think that I should have put a title saying contents rather than just the title of the magazine, however I think that it was a good idea to use this in the contents to keep the theme, maybe another time I would use the same font and colours on the word contents to keep the theme
I have almost followed the three colour rule however I had to use a black background otherwise my white font would have been unreadable. However other than this I did keep to the three colours.
I used the same font for the title on the contents page as the front cover, I also kept to my colour scheme on both pages and used the same font as the title on the larger fonts on the contents page and on my articles on both the front and the contents page to keep the magazine looking uniform and flow.
I used photographs of students in the college and they were all taken inside the college grounds however I think it would have been better if I had used a variation of locations as I only showed images of the deck and the Costa Coffee. I also feel that the images didn't have many people on them and was a proper representation of college life, if I was to do this again I would make sure I took pictures at lunch time because this is when the college is much busier.
There are several stories on the cover however I think I could have done with some more as the cover seems quite blank. I also feel that I could have done with more articles in the magazine on my contents page as again it seemed quite blank, I tried to improve this however by using a larger font on the page numbers and to make it more interesting, however even then I still used a font size 14 on the text which said the name of the articles.
