EVALUATION

SEAN MILLINGTON

TECHNOLOGIES

PHOTOSHOPI used Photoshop to produce my front cover. I had to learn and develop my photoshop skills to develop a quality front cover. A tool that I used when producing my front cover was the elipse tool. I used the elipse tool to make my puff which I would later put the price of the magazine on in text, using the elipse tool allowed me to make a round circular shape appropriate to fit for the front cover and price. I also used the elipse tool to add a second puff which would state an article in the magazine.

Another tool I used on photoshop was the rectangle tool, I used this to make

my banner and skyline. I made a thick black rectangle shape on the top and

bottom to make the skyline and the banner. I also used the rectangle tool to

make bullet points on the banner and to make a white line in between the

text saying ‘Plus!’ and the bullet pointed features.

A skill I learnt and developed on photoshop was my

image editing skills. I edited the image that I had by

adjusting the levels of the image. This would done

by Image>Adjustments>levels and then adjusting

the input and output levels. This was to make the

dark colours darker and the bright colours brighter

in the image. I feel this really improved my image

and really brought out the colours of spray paint out

and made the coverstar stand out in the midst of it.

A skill I used with photoshop was the stroke effect

when writing my coverlines, masthead, headline

and issue number an coverdate. This skill gives

text a thicker outline and makes it stand out. I feel I

used it for this purpose but also to make coverlines,

issue number and the coverdate look better. I feel I

used this skill to great effect.

QUARK XPRESS

I used the picture content tool for all my images

in quark. Using this tool involves making the

image fit into a certain sized box so it can be put

into the project the correct size as demonstrated

to by the images.

I also used technologies with Quark, I used Quark to

design my contents page and double page spread.

I also used the rectangle box tool in

quark, I used this tool to add shapes to

one side of my double page spread. This

involved making the rectangles the same

size and positioning them in a pattern to

make the page more lively and look better

as it was quite bland.

The four shapes done by

the rectangle box tool

This is where the line tool

was used

Another tool that I used was the line tool. I

used this to separate parts of my contents

page. Below would feature the article

names and above in bold the name of the

magazine. This was simply part of my

design and the line tool was important to

make things look bolder and more stood

out. I also used the line tool to separate my

article columns.

These were my final designs

that were produced on Quark.

NIKON DS100

Final images (taken by this camera).