PhotoShop progress - Contents page...

                                      

1) I started to add more text but underneath the image as I just having an image doesn't really show or say anything. Seen as the image is a photo of The 1975, I started to write the beginning of an article for the band so that it would attract the readers to read that section. I added a black border around the it so that people could see that it isn't apart of everything else that is on the page. Also, this links to the magazines that I have been looking at, as magazines such as NME usually have a some sort of writing underneath their image so that the audience know what the image is about.

2) After looking at the text and the box that I added, I realised that I wasn't very happy with the way it looked so I decided to move everything up so that it was just on top of the image, but not covering the image. I still kept the black border around. 

 3) Looking at my previous image, having the black border around the writing wasn't working out so well and as well as I planned it would. For this reason, I got rid of the black borders and used the white boxes as the borders seen as it was overlapping the image a bit. I think that this works out much better than what I had previously done.

4) Here, I finished adding in the text for the mini article and started to add a black box underneath so that the viewers could see that they could also subscribe to the music magazine. I added an image of my magazine cover so that the viewers could see that they will be subscribing to. I made the text white, but I felt that it looked quite bland and I used white and black and a bit of burgundy throughout the whole of the contents page.

 

5) Here, I started to experiment with colouring. I used a mustard yellow for the website. I find this quite effective and think it works quite well. This also links to the music magazines that I have been looking at as they usually have a subscribe box on their contents pages. 

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 6) The images above just show how I experimented with the colours white, burgundy and mustard yellow for the text in the subscribe box. Looking at these images, I feel as if the mustard yellow works well as it is bright, eye catching and it is also a different colour from all the other colours that I have used which makes the contents page seem less dull.

7) This is just to show what I have done so far. I decided to go with the mustard yellow in the subscribe box as I felt that this was most effective. Looking at my contents page, there are still some small things to do and improve on. For example, I am going to change the numbers on the contents page so that the pages go up higher and I am also going to sort out the title/masthead.