1. Skills Journal
Kieran Hyde

2. My original masthead was this shown below and I did this by creating a rectangle box filling it red, reducing the
opacity to about 80% and putting the BASELINE text in. Then I used the rubber tool to rub out the edges of the words
to create a broken cracking effect. Although this masthead does look okay the font needs a box to lay on otherwise it
looks wrong but mastheads that big don’t sit right at the top of magazines when they are in boxes. Al though
magazines such as NME and SPIN use boxes they are short words and can be put in one corner of the magazine
whereas this has to go across the page and I didn’t think it suited so I created a new one.

3. Again I used the rubber create streaks through the
writing giving it a scratched effect.

4. This is my final front cover

5. This is the image I used for the main image on my front
cover. This was taken at college by against the graffiti wall.

6. I didn’t like the green colours in the graffiti wall as I thought having one colour which was
blue as I thought this main image of the models stand out and not concentrate on the
boldness of the backdrop as the models are the important feature. So I used the clone
stamp and copied parts of the backdrop to cover up the green.

7. Next I added in my masthead which I had already made and using the same technique I added in the
coverlines and to create the scratched effect as seen in the word foals and featured throughout my
magazine I just simply selected the rubber and then clicked on the brush style and chose number 11
and then using a small size just carefully rubbed out parts of the word. To do this I had to rasterize the
layer which meant I could not edit the wording of the text anymore.

8. After adding in all the text which I had applied the previous technique to all of it I used the
technique white on black which is commonly used in popular magazine ‘NME’ and all most all
others at some point, I used this for the first time in my ‘RADAR’ magazine. It gives the
magazines pull quotes more visibility but you can still use subtle colours which are sometimes
needed in magazines like mine unlike the ‘Popsplash’ one I did.

9. The white on black effect is done by just creating a a rectangle box as shown below and
then filling it in the appropriate colour to compliment and emphasise the text. I used a
variation of colours on the front cover depending on the text colour.

10. The I added in shapes using the shape tool to add a bit of a conventional professional look
to my magazine as lots feature shapes that that point towards text and to emphasise
certain parts of the cover. I just had to make sure that the layer I wanted to be visible was
higher up on the layer bar eg. The red cross at the bottom had to be above the black
pentagon other wise it wouldn’t be on top of it so I just clicked and dragged it to the
correct place.

11. Finally I put in the band name for my main article ‘Inter City’ and I used a shadow effect on
this by double clicking on the layer and then clicking drop shadow, multiply, black and making
the opacity to 75% I did this because I think it makes the text bolder and pop out at the
reader.

12. The End Product

13. Contents page.

14. Firstly I established my basic layout to the contents page and I did this by putting in bold
boundary marks using the rectangle tool and filling them in black. (I knew my basic outlines
due to having drawn up flat plans by hand) And I added in a small masthead at the bottom
which I just dragged over then free transformed down to size.

15. Next I wrote out all my text and used the same technique which was the rubber and scratching
out little parts of the writing. I dint scratch out the numbers as I didn’t want to overuse the
technique so I created rectangle boxes alternating between black and red so the house style is
continued.

16. Next I had to highlight and link all the layers from my front cover and drag it across to my
contents page so that the reader can see the front cover without flicking back and forth
between the two

17. Finally I added in my other images

18. Contents Final

19. DPS

20. For my DPS I again began by marking out the boundaries for every thing by using the
rectangle shape tool then filling the in black.

21. Next I decided where to put a pull quote so I made a white rectangle box to cover over the
line and then made a red rectangle box and reduced the opacity to 78% as it looked to
bright at full opacity.

22. I wrote the text for the DPS in word first so that it would review all my spelling and
grammar and there is a screen shot of it.

23. I copy and pasted the writing into the DPS and put
it into columns.

24. I used some of the more interesting parts of the article as pull quotes by copying
and pasting them out of the text and enlarging it by free transforming and
changing the colours.

25. To finish off I dragged the Inter city title from the contents page and free transformed it
bigger. I then put in a picture of Adam and Pete on a black background which I made using
the rectangle shape tool.

26. Everything was done the same on each DPS page and on the second page I changed an
image to black and white to give it and authentic look I did this by selecting the layer tab
for the picture, going into image, the adjustments and the selecting black and white.

27. Final DPS