From completing my drafts for my pop music magazine. I’ve learnt many new design skills and production techniques in the process of improving my drafts to make them successful.  Although there were still some skills I would of loved to perfect, I am still happy with the ones I have developed as I believe they are adding to my magazine and making it as best as possible. I used many tools from the image below including:

• Rectangle frame tool which helped me to place my images and make them fit this frame proportionally to be the right size for my magazine.
• Text tool that allowed me to include all my text in the right places.
• Polygon tool which I used to add shapes to my magazine in empty areas in order to add detail.
• Line tool that I used to separate some text on the contents page in particular and to add detail to some titles on my cover.

A new tool I used to add some features to my magazine was the rectangle tool (shown in image above). I used this to make certain areas that looked empty on my magazine more interesting to fill the space. In these rectangle boxes I included quotes and captions to make them more bold to the reader. To make these boxes look more subtle I turned the opacity of them down so the images underneath were still visible, which made them fit in as they looked apart of the shot.

A skill that would of been good to develop would be how to remove shadows from the models faces. This is because from my original shoot I had an image that I wanted to use for my front cover, however there was a shadow on the model’s neck and face from the jacket she was wearing. Even after trying many methods to remove it because there was too many shades in that area that I had to match, I was not successful on making it look perfect and decided to use another image. But I am still pleased with the image I used for my front cover as it portrays the star image successfully, similarly to the image I originally chose.

Overall, I believe that all my new skills and techniques have helped me in the productions of my magazine. From these skills I have managed to create my successful star image of confident models and portrayed the music genre of pop to my target audience.