Question Seven

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

A copious amount of progress has been made since my preliminary task, which is evident throughout its design in comparison to my psychedelic music magazine. Such advancements include my ability to enhance:

• ·         Images, through the use of editing by using colourful filters, enhancing their appearance by making them stand out more. These colours will also appeal to my target audience who respond to bright, colourful imagery very well. I also used the liquefy tool on Photoshop to distort the faces of my models, conveying a psychedelic trip. This taught me about attention to detail and how to use the tool with care in order to achieve the effects I wanted.

• ·         Embedding designs, such as inserting drawn pictures of flowers and recolouring, resizing and positioning them in order to ensure they work with the layout of my magazine.

• ·         Adding gradients, such as within text boxes and backgrounds, this uses anchorage in order to make the text stand out more and to add another dimension of aesthetic value to my design, whilst appealing to my target audience who enjoy interesting textures that are not plain.

• ·         Outlining text, to make it easier to read and to stand out more, to separate it from the background of the design. This also develops the house style of my magazine, with bold text running throughout.

Overall, this magazine looks more aesthetically pleasing and professionally finished. The magazine is also more audience enticing, with the use of better suited images and content.