Becoming familiar with In design

Original source

My work

3 positives

• I really like the heading, it looks very professional.
• I feel like I found very similar if not the same fonts when copying the original source’s fonts. I clearly have a good eye for fonts!
• The colouring of the images on the left column match the schemes from the original.

3 negatives

• The images of the left column aren’t aligned with the box and they are not all the same size I need to improve my placing in future.
• My image is very pixelated, I need figure out how to layout my image to get it’s correct proportions.
• Some of the fonts I picked didn’t allow a bold option. I need to try and maybe download  different fonts and typefaces so it looks right and gives the right ideas and messages in future.

At first, I struggled when  formatting my In-design pages to have a layout like a  magazine. I attached a video tutorial to help me out in future.

I also struggled with trimming and sizing my images. I added a video to help me with this very important aspect of in-design for future media projects.

Summary

I learnt how to navigate my around In design. I now know how to format a page to have a magazine layout and use most of the in application features. I treated this task as an In design crash course. We did this task of course to help us learn to use the software In design because we will use it for our actual magazine. This was useful because I feel now that I know how to work In design I can now focus on making affluent media. In a magazine, all of the text, images and colours work together to give an impression or communicate an idea or subject. Knowing what schemes text sizes and images give what ideas have been used before is knowing what works and what doesn’t having consumed this media whilst recreating it I have a sense of what professional magazine media can look like.

Having the ability to use In design effectively when making my magazine will have extensive benefit to me.  Going forward this skill, once polished will help me get more marks because the media I come to produce will be more refined and professional.