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.