During the creative production process of creating my music magazine I have utilised Photoshop and InDesign, during these processes I have learnt many parts of how to adapt a picture and manipulate it to create a better outcome.

The new skills I learnt and used are…

• Spot healing tool
• The eye tool
• Give images any type of coloured glow/gradient

Firstly, the spot healing tool is used to eliminate any imperfections on the model, this helps to give the image a more appealing youthful look.

Secondly, the eye tool can be used to brighten the whites of the eyes to create a more eye catching engaging look, this tool can also be used to enhance the natural colour of the eyes to really make the eyes of the model pop and once again give the model a more appealing eye catching,

Thirdly, the glow and gradient tools are very important to the creation of my cover and throughout my magazine. I use these tools on indesign after I have finished altering my image on photoshop.

Above is the list of possible glow/gradient affects that can be put onto images, blank areas and even text. I like to use this tool as it is fairly simple yet adds a massive effect on how and image or text is portrayed as just by doing this it can convey anything you want, this is vital in creating media especially in music magazine as you can convey a narrative or genre just by using colours.