Wanderer Magazine

This is my magazine cover I created with the tools I was given. I used InDesign to create the layout and the template was already made for me. The picture in the background was one chosen by the class that I toned, cropped and made my own in Photoshop. The original looks somewhat similar but a little lighter, and the people are a little more cropped in this picture. Also, I focused more on the cathedral itself than the background. In the original picture, on the left hand corner, the van was very prominent, so I did the best I could to crop the picture to take the focus off of the van. I kept the headline font and size the same, but changed the color to match roof the cathedral with the eye drop tool in InDesign. I also chose the best colors that would stand out against the background for the other headlines of the stories that might be included inside this magazine.

Toned Pictures

I toned these pictures in Photoshop to make them look more recent as well as cover up the holes in the photo displaying their age. That is the first thing I actually did in the first picture; I cloned the colors that were closest to the picture so I could cover up the missing spots. I also made the image as a whole sharper, to make the features of the picture stand out more. The woman in the picture had age spots on her face, and with the clone tool, I covered them up also. In the second picture, I cropped the rounded edges to make the picture completely square and filled in the missing spots, as I had done for the first picture. I also made the picture just a little less red.

Revised Midterm

This is my revised midterm web design. I took the corrections that were given to me and revised my design. I lightened the background color so it would be more visible to the readers and bolded some of the headlines to be more readable. I also made the logo smaller so it would not catch the readers attention as much as they stories should. I switched the pictures around because they were too repetitive and focused on another one as my main picture. In my previous design, the text was touching the edges on most of the stories so I made the actual text box a little bit smaller. I took the advice and skills my professor had taught me to revise this design to the best of my ability.