Creating my Contents Page

First I opened QuarkXPress and made a new document for my contents page.

Then using the ‘rectangle box tool’ from the tool bar I created a border

around the page.

Rectangle box tool

Next I double clicked on the box so that I could make the frame thicker and

changed it to 4pt.

Then I inserted images by going to the ‘picture tool’ on the tool bar. I double clicked the square

with the cross in and selected the images I wanted on my contents page.

Picture tool

I decided I wanted to have borders around the images, so using the rectangle box tool I dragged it around the images and then right clicked and

went to modify.

I changed the width to 4pt and the colour to ‘Cyan’ as it is a bright blue colour connoting

calmness and links to my cover page.

Next I positioned the borders and images around the page

using the ‘move tool’.

Move tool

I wanted the columns to be clear so I created black lines using the ‘line tool’ to section the

page into three columns for the articles. I also added page numbers by using the ‘text tool’ on

the toolbar.

Linetool

Texttool

Like before I inserted the image of a snowflake which I had edited in

Photoshop and duplicated it to divide the columns.

Picturetool

Texttool

After that using the ‘text tool’ I started writing the article headings and a small amount of

information underneath. I also added an editors letter to make the magazine personal.

Then using the ‘text tool’ I created the title ‘contents and wrote the issue, date and the name of the magazine at

the top. The font I used was stencil as I that was previously used for the cover page. I changed the size to 75pt and added a light blue drop shadow to the lettering.

This is the finished contents page for Recent Magazine.

Creating my Double Page

Spread

After making my contents page I started to create a double page spread for my magazine. I went on

‘page layout’ and dragged two new pages underneath ‘A’ so that I had them facing each other.

Next I inserted images from Photoshop which I had found using a search engine. I wanted the layout of the leaves to look quite scattered and care free so that it reflected the artist featured.

After that I used the ‘text tool’ to add the title of the page and the artists name down the side. I decided

to use two main colours black and orange to contrast the white background and link to the bright orange

leaves.

Next using the ‘rectangle box tool’ I created a rectangle so that I could lay the text from the

interview on top.

I changed the fill colour to pink on the rectangle by right clicking and going to >modify > box tab,

changing the colour. I did this to link with the cover page and contents page which relates to my female

target audience.

Then I imported the main image of the artist featured which I had edited on

Photoshop and made into a JPG image.

After that I added the text in from the interview and changed the font colours to black, purple

and blue so that it was clear when Corinna and the magazine interviewer was speaking.

Due to the text overlapping the artist’s legs I wanted the page to look professional so I went to

Modify > Run around and changed the type to item added 3pt to the top. This would allow the text to

go around the image.

Using the ‘text tool’ again I added pull quotes from the main article to grab the reader’s attention. I

clicked on the text box and went to modify > Run around again, so that they can move freely around

the text.

Finally after finishing the double page spread and contents page, I went to File > Export > Layout as PDF so that I could import it into Photoshop and

save it as a JPG.

This is the finished double page spread for Recent Magazine.