Contents page

 

This is my contents page, I made it in photoshop as indesign wouldn't work and blogger would not upload the orginail design. Although I feel this one is better then my orginail idea, as it is more colourful and easier to read. However the colour of the text I have chosen is hard to read, so I will need to choose a better colour next when making the music magazine. I chose the green as its a very neatural colour and very homely, a contrast to the front cover which is quite fun and rough. Also I'd include pictures in the contents of my music magazine as I feel I didn't take any appropriote photos this time, which means for the music magazine I should take more photos.

Contents page tester

I used InDesign to test out our contents page on, I did a rough copy and will upload later as its not working at the moment. I learnt the differences between photoshop and Indesign, the main one was that photoshop is mainly to change and edit photos, where as InDesign was made to make things such as contents pages. I felt InDesign was harder to use then photoshop. I did learn how to do a few basics on how to make a contents page however, Like how to add collumns in. InDesign was rather difficult to use as we had to but things in collumns and use texts boxes in certain areas. I couldn't add pictures to the contents page as the computer wouldn't let me, so when i make my music magazine page I shall learnt to use the design in more depth.

Experiments on photoshop

We spent a few lessons getting used to photoshop and making possible front covers for our school magazine. Here is a couple i produced. I feel they both give the feeling of unity and friendship, the feeling of the college. The first one however i used a picture from the internet as i hadn't taken any photos at that point, but the second one i used a photo someone took of myself and a friend.
i deleted the background using the magic wand and the rubber, i felt this focused us to the image more and gave an edge to the photo, contrasting the name excel maybe?
i asked a few people in my class and they all thought the second one was "cool" so its a possibility of being the cover of my school magazine.

more photos

These photos show life at our college and make it look like a happy inviting place.