From creating my front cover for my magazine and starting to design my double page spread, I have taught myself many new skills using Photoshop and InDesign to begin to create a successful magazine. From learning these skills I have created my magazine to fit my genre and portray it effectively however I would of liked to learn some more complex skills as well.

Some examples of new skills I have made on Photoshop include:

• Selection Tools

This tool helped me when making my front cover so I could remove the background from my image and create a new one without the model being affected. This means I could create a new background to fit my genre of pop and attracting my target audience.

• Retouching tools

Both these tools enabled me to clear any blemishes/imperfections on my model to give her the perfect star image being youthful, and lively.

These tools helped me to perfect my image by enhancing some features of my models to help give her that young energetic, bubbly star image.