Contents Page Screenshots

To create my contents page I firstly created a new document on Photoshop. I then went on dafont to find the font I used for my masthead to create ‘contents’. After that I inserted my masthead.Next I opened one of my images in Photoshop, created a mask and removed the background by painting in black.

After I had finished removing the background on my first image, I repeated the same process on my second image.

Next I created a rectangle, using the shape tool, and layered it behind my first image. I then began to paint over the rectangle in the same way that I did on my front cover, tying the pages together.

After I had created the background I began to edit the colour balance, brightness, and contrast on the image to make it fit with the colour scheme.

I then created a mask and removed the backgrounds of two more of my images. I also added a rectangular background to the two images in the same way I did to the first image.

After that I began to add the some of the text, like the artist names, page numbers, and subheadings.

Next I created lines in between the different subheadings to create columns so that the contents page would be easier to navigate. I also left a space for the editor’s letter to go.

I then added the artist names, matching the colours, not only to my colour scheme, but also to the artist.

After that, I edited the colour balance, brightness and contrast of these two images to match the rest of the image.

I then changed the placement of the artist names because the rectangle was taking up too much room. This meant that I had to change the colour of the fonts and add a stroke to make them clearly visible.

Next I opened a picture of me to go by the editor’s letter. I then edited this image into a polaroid, by using an image of a plain polaroid. This was to give the editor’s letter a fun and friendly feel to it.

I also chose quite a quirky font to write the editor’s letter in, so that it seems like it’s handwritten and personal. Behind this I then added another rectangle and also painted this one in the same way.

After that I moved the masthead and added the magazine’s social media username with the corresponding logos of twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

I then added all of the article titles, page numbers and information into the different sections. I also added the tree background from the cover onto the contents page, but without the colour behind and flipped, so that it links, but doesn’t copy the cover.

This is my completed contents page.