Evaluation

Here is the full evaluation of my magazine. All 7 questions answered.

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Full magazine

All the work on my magazine is now done. These are the three pages, and a final version of my stylesheet.

Magazine cover

Contents page

Double Page Spread

Final version of my stylesheet

New DPS photos

Main photo in my DPS

Considered to use this as a new cover photo

In my previous post i wrote that I was not happy with my photos on my DPS page and that I diddn't feel they where representative for my genre. Therefore i took some new photos, this time i got a friend to take them but with me as a model. The location was a pretty rough abandoned industry area, fitting with my genre of music.

DPS page

This is what my DPS in the end ended up looking like. I went for a simple three-columns design with text on one page and the title and photos on the other. I am going to change the photos because they aren't very representative for my genre. I decided to put in a footer at the bottom of my DPS to make it a lot more interesting. I also added some "distorted" effects to the background as well. A thing I've seen especially Metalhammer do a lot in their magazines.

This is what my DPS looked like when i adopted it from my flat plan. I found this layout too difficult to work with. Especially working with two columns instead of three. I also wanted a more compact design and therefore i moved my photos on to the other page and extended the "timeline" down to the bottom.

This  is what my DPS looked like before I decided to change my overall design of the page into the grey/black layout I have in the rest of my magazine. Just to make it more in touch with the rest.

Contents page

This is the contents page for my magazine. I have abandoned the drafts but i’m far more happy with this than a contents page solely based on the drafts. 

This was my contents page half way trough. At one point i decided to change the basic colour layout and have a dark grey background instead of a white. My magazine is a metal magazine, and I felt that it was becoming too white and messy instead of the dark, elegant design I was aiming for.

This is an updatet stylesheet i made after completing the contents page. My stylesheet keeps on changing as the projects developes, changing fonts and adding more type of colours. The one font I was thinking of use for my cover lines turned out to be too unreadable in the contents page. Now I`m only using two fonts in my magazine, Baskerville and Payday. I think that's too few fonts.

Constructing the contents page; working methods.

I thought it would be interesting to display my working methods when constructing the contents page. My thought behind using this special technique in Photoshop is to stay as close to the original draft as possible

Now, my contents page looks sightly different from the draft. I underestimated how small the text size on an a4 sheet actually is, so i had a lot of extra space.

Here is my working method anyway:

This is the original draft of my contents page. I take this .jpg file and put it as layer Photoshop when I’m starting to make my contents page.

Now i use an very smart tool in Photoshop called guides. I simply drag the guides to construct the first, simple, shapes in my contents page.

 

By using the shape tool and the text tool i can start to transfer my ideas on paper into Photoshop and if i want to make it exact. I find the guides incredible useful when making anything in Photoshop. Especially page layouts when I want to have everything precise!

This is what my contents page looked like in the start solely based on my draft. I used these shapes to further develop my page.

Magazine cover

I've finished my magazine cover. The actual construction of the front page in Photoshop didn't take much time cause I had a clear idea of what i wanted on there, witch colours to use, and a great photograph to use.

The final cover didn`t vary much from the final draft. The draft mas maybe a little scarse of detail, I should have included the positions of the cover lines as well.

Prelimunary Task

Cover.

Contents.

A simple design for the magazine "The Student", prelimunary task.

Cover photo

These are some of the photos i consider using for my magazine. I met up with my model and did a quick shoot just outside of college. I'm very happy about the result, and I think I've got my cover photo!

The photo-shoot was intended for my cover photo, but I'll maybe use some of the other photos as well troughout my magazine. I consider use some of the mid-shots or long-shots in my DPS or contents page.

These photo's are edited and cropped.

Cover photo

Consider using this image in my DPS, but then i will need more similar long-shots.

Considered using this for my cover

Considered using this for my cover

Instead of making it into a black-and-white series of photos, the photos are only desaturated.