making my college magazine

For my college magazine, it was my first time using photoshop I started of my dragging the image to the page on Photoshop and dropping it in I then began cutting out the background of the image using the magnetic lasso tool, then pressing ctrl and j to put this on a new layer  and then hiding the previous layer. After this I painted the background grey and painted the outside of the background a darker grey.

Next I began to add my masthead I made my masthead 3D so that it would be eye catching and stick out when put on a shelf.

I then began to add my 'puff' i selected a unusual shape to make the puff stick out, and selected this in a bright colour, I then added the text with buzz words such as 'free'. I also then began to add more text for my cover lines and put a black box behind it to make it stand out. I also added the city college logo in the top right corner to represent what college magazine it was.

After this I basically repeated the techniques and just added more and more cover lines. I also added typical elements needed for a consumer magazine such as the date, the barcode and the price. Leading to my end product which is this;

For my contents page I also used Photoshop so used the same techniques of inserting images and texts only major difference is I inserted more text and put the text in a grid layout.