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

For my preliminary task, I created a school based magazine that featured a model on the front cover. I used some simple effects on the text in photoshop to make them stand out, and used transparencies at a basic level for some vector shapes.

While for my main task, I used an entire range of new tools like masking, gradients and photography manipulation in order to create an interesting and exciting front cover, I feel I have learned how an audience reacts (by using peer review throughout creation of my magazine) and how to use certain content to suite that, such as my use of colours and association.

I have learned how to effectively make my model more interesting and engage and address the audience using contrast and colour editing, and I have managed to use special effects to make text stand out on any background. More specifically my extended use of the glow tool in Macromedia Flash.

All in all I believe I have learned a massive amount since I first created my preliminary, especially regarding layout and engaging the user through readability and colours. I feel that I have improved a massive amount from when I first began creating a magazine cover and contents page for my coursework.

This is my original picture for the front cover pre-editing