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

When I first started using photoshop I had enough knowledge to know the basic tools used in making images now after all the work Ive done I know how to make alot better images then what
I could make before.

Before After

The type of tools that I found greatly improved the look of my work was the use of Opacity in some parts of the image also another part that helped my work look alot better would the use of changing layers and then changing the effects (Colour burn, dissolve etc.) and this would change the colour pattern of the image below to what the image on top looked like. One of the most effective tools I used wasn't a tool but an effect, "Colour burn" and this added a coloured effect that sort of burnt into the page. The last effect that I used was the stroke tool this added an sort of outer glow but using solid lines instead of a glow.

When I made my magazine I knew from the start that I just wanted to target the hard rock and heavy metal audience because that's the type of music I listened to at the time. Another reason I chose to make this type of magazine is because I felt there it was an under valued market and isn't represented to well in the modern world where ever you look its just all about hip hop and pop music aka Simon Cowell world. When doing my research into the wonderful world of music magazines the only ones that really stood out for me where the rock n' roll magazines simply because they were so different, they weren't just clones of other magazines with a different title they had a uniqueness about them that made them stand out.