throughout making my magazine pages, I have become more confident in both Photoshop and InDesign.

One of the most useful tools that I have learnt to use is the InDesign colour hex editor, this features allows me to find any colour I want, find its hex colour and I then can use it in my own work, this has been especially useful when creating my content page, as it had extremely vivid colours, and all the colours needed to be consistent, the colour palette also helped me with this, as I was able too store colours that I had already used. Both of these tools, would make my magazine look both more contemporary and fit more to the indie subgenre, due to the modern design and aesthetically pleasing colours.

In photoshop I have particularly found the curve tool useful, it allows the user to change the tonal level of the image, this means that you can change the shadows and the highlights of the photo to make the photo look more appealing overall. You can add different points to the tone line, this either makes the shadows or the highlights, more or less prominent in the photo, this is particularly useful in changing the mood in the photo. For example you can make the shadows more prominent to make an image appear more dramatic.