What new design skills or production techniques have you learnt? What went well and even better if…screen shots of InDesign and Photoshop and commentary – specific impact on the product in terms of star image, genre, narrative etc

As I continue to develop my magazine and keep improving on it, my techniques and skills in the software programmes are also improving. Inarticularly I feel that my InDesign skills have significantly improved as I have made the finer details and touches to my magazine.

Firstly, when making my double page spread, I learnt how to wrap text around an object or shape. I used this when placing a quote in the centre of a block of text. It made the page more exciting and removed the block text, this break it up for the reader and also engages them as they want to know what this specific quote is about.

I also discovered how to make different shapes to place an image in, I used this on both my front cover and my contents page. I made a star to place my images in. This made from inserts more exciting and gave the page more interesting features. I could change the number of sides of the shape but also how far in the inset would be for the star. This meant I could change it to suit the specific image.

I also learnt how to manipulate an image in InDesign, I could change the angle of the image, rotate it, or flip it vertically or horizontally. This was very useful to me when I was adding in my smaller images from my phone into the stars, as I could angle them to fit and also flip them if necessary.

So far I am really happy with the progress that I have made with my music magazine. I think that it coming together well and resembles the Latino music genre and style, which is bright, fresh, hot and young like my design for my magazine. This is reflected in the star image from my photo shoots and the colour scheme that I have used.