Skills development: Double page spread

Software and hardware used

When creating my cover page I used the following:

DSLR camera

Adobe Photoshop

Quark XPress

Skills I have learntThe skills I have learnt whilst creating my magazine front cover are:

How to use a DSLR camera and use the different settings for example auto focus to get better quality shots. These make the pictures look more professional and better quality so that the audience will be more attracted to them. Here are some examples of images I have taken:

I have also learnt how to how to edit images in photoshop. I have learnt how to crop them, change the saturation, vibrance, brightness and colour of images to make them stand out more and look more appealing. Here is an example of an image I have edited and how I did it:

I have learnt how to format text correctly to be used in a professional magazine page for example using style sheets in quark to add drop caps, indentations and formatting text in word by having correct spacing, paragraphing and font sizes so that i can export it into a quark document and it will look professional.