This shows my initial double page spread design. I decided once I’d designed this that the background looked quite dull and the block of colour looked too much blue. I also think the main text body needs breaking up a bit.

After my previous design I decided that I would add a brush to the background too break up the colour a bit. I also decided to add a pull quote to break up the text and interest the readers more. A page number was also added in the bottom right hand corner.

My previous designs pull quote was worded slightly different from the actual wording tin the main body of text. I decided the pull quote was interesting, so changed the main body of text to match the pull quote.

I decided that the double page spread would look more professional if the columns were the same size and the text was justified in the columns. Therefore I justified the text, meaning the columns on the left page were exactly the same width. I also changed the text around the photo so that there was a gutter, improving the visibility of the DPS.

Throughout the design process of my music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread one of the main Photoshop features I have used is the outer glow. I feel this has really helped my font to stand out and look more professional. Without this feature I feel my magazine would have looked boring and very flat but I think the outer glow has really helped bring out the words in my music magazine.

Another process I used during the design work of my music magazine was the colour overlay. This is a really useful design feature on Photoshop which meant that I could ensure all my text was black, because the text I used had very fine lines which were hard to fill using the paint bucket tool.

When designing my double page spread I realised that the background looked a little dull with it all being one colour, so I decided to use the brush tool on Photoshop to add a subtle pattern to the background to break up the colour.

I added this pattern to the background by simply downloading a brush from a brush website and importing this into Photoshop. I then used this in the same way a paintbrush is used and simply clicked wherever I wanted a music note pattern.

The font selection in Photoshop is quite basic and also didn’t provide the style of font I wanted to use throughout my music magazine. I used an internet site called ‘dafont.com’ to find my text style to use in my music magazine. Because I couldn’t download the fonts using the college computers, I simply print screened the font I wanted (I used decibel throughout my music magazine) and pasted this into my Photoshop document. I then cropped the print screen to get just the text before using the ‘select colour range’ tool on Photoshop to remove the white background so I was left with just the text.