this week i have used Photoshop, in order to begin my magazine front cover. as it will be an issue of Empire magazine, i inserted a cover of the magazine into Photoshop and used thw wand tool to copy and paste each letter of Empire, onto a new page which would be the start of my own cover. once i had inserted each letter, i positioned them correctly, following the conventions of the other Empire covers. my cover was now beginning to look like the other Empire magazines. from this stage, i went on to change the colour of the text. i decided on a dark purple, as it was not too vibrant yet it matched the on going theme of the purple pen which Penelope finds. i finally added some additional text on to the cover; the issue date, the price, the website and a barcode. i now need to take my photograph(s) for my front cover and finalise the straplines i intend on using on the cover.
through doing this, i do not feel that i have developed any skills as everything i have done, i was able to do last year. one problem which i have stumbled upon is a weakness within Photoshop; it is an image manipulation programme, rather than a text programme, such as Publisher. therefore, i am going to wait untill i have my photograph(s) for my magazine front cover, to then save it as a jpeg, and add text on Publishing software.