Evaluation

In the process of making my magazine cover, I learned new skills in Photoshop such as changing the colour of the photo, shadowing and highlighting the colours to make them brighter or darker, cropping the image, adding text and drawing on to the photo. I found out what looked good, what didn’t and how to improve them.

The audience of my magazine would be college students, from 16-19 from both genders and ethnic groups. I used only a few cover lines but the cover stories give a range of different interests from needing help with courses, coursework/homework and revision to helping with planning college parties and other social events. Overall, it doesn’t focus on one subject or one event but many different one’s so it will appeal to more people in the college and get a wider target audience. Although the magazine isn’t designed for parents and may not interest them, they can use it to know dates for upcoming events. I didn’t include a price on my cover page because it would be a free magazine.

The cover of the magazine has an image of a boy against a brick wall. This image doesn’t show a big population of the college or link to an event that has happened but the boy looks quite trendy and cool so instead, he could be representing the college rather than showing people what’s in it.

Before I started, I knew how to use the digital cameras but hadn’t used Photoshop or the Mac’s so I had to learn and experiment with different things as I went along. Because of this, my skills have developed and for the next project I do, I will know what to do better and how Photoshop works.

In conclusion, I would rate my overall success to be good, as I have learnt a lot of new skills on Photoshop/the Mac’s. If I were to do this again, I’d take more images at the beginning as this would of saved time, as I had to redo them.