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My original plan for my student magazine was for the title to be “Young Generation”. I then decided to change that later as I found that it took up too much room. While researching magazines I found that all the magazines had a shop and catchy masthead. I change my masthead to “Youth” because it summed up my target audience in one word, it was easy to remember, simply and catchy. My original magazines layout was also change as I did not feel the pictures made a big statement. There was too much pictures and the main picture would not have made a huge enough effect as I would have wanted it too.

I decided to take some more photos but this time some single shots. I then used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out the girl and blurred out the edges so that it is not as sharp.

After I had the single shot away from the background I noticed that the image was not clear due to the location that it was taken. I then decided to take some more photos but outdoor photos. The image had the right background and was clear. I then used the polygonal lasso tool again to copy the image of the female alone on to another while I make changes to the background to make some effect. For the background I blurred it to tone it down. I then copied the single shot image of the girl and placed her in the

exact same shot that she originally was. I edited the colour by going to Image- Adjustment- Auto-colour.

I created effect on the masthead in order for it to stand out. I made the text a bold white colour and then added and inner shadow, drop shadow, bevel and emboss which made it stand out and not look so flat on the magazine. For my main story I made the heading in bold and a different front and colour from the sub-heading. I did this for effect in order for it to catch the reader’s eye. I did this by adding by using different colours and adding on inner & drop shadow and outer glow.

In order for it to look like a real magazine I had to add on a barcode which I copied and pasted from Google. I resized it and placed it in the corner of my magazine.