Magazine Cover Analysis

Here I have analysed 'THE SOURCE' which is a 'Rap Music' Magazine.

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School Magazine: Contents Page & Analysis

• The style is kept similar to the cover, with a green gradient background and black text.
• The layout is kept simple and formal as this is a school magazine which people would likely read for information, and a simple layout makes it easier to find the content wanted.
• 'Contents' is given its own section in the top-left so that the reader can instantly see what this page is about.
• The text and page references are aligned to a grid, this gives the magazine a structured look.
• The school logo at the bottom helps make the magazine seem more formal, similar to a stamp of endorsment.
• The white line helps seperate the actual magazine content from what is there to improve the look of the magazine

School Magazine: Cover & Analysis

• The magazine cover is meant to attract the reader, so I have used large text and sharp shapes at the top of the magazine to try and make the magazine look interesting.
• This is a school magazine so the layout has been kept uniform and simple, but also interesting.
• I have chosen to keep the magazine mostly green as it is my school's uniform colour.
• The Masthead of the magazine is bordered with green which is not commonly used but goes well with the other green shapes at the top of the magazine.

Photoshop Tutorial: Gaussian Blur & Hue/Saturation.

I used 'Scribd' to embed this powerpoint presentation I made,
It features my classmate Morgan Reeves.


The goal of this presentation was for me to learn about a feature in Photoshop and be able to educate my class about it, I can remember apply gaussian blur and change the hue of images from memory so this task definately helped me improve my knoweledge of Photoshop.