Tools

Software Tools

Merging Cells on Excel

• I needed to merge the cells that are now painted grey, because I needed to add a break in my plan, therefore, I used the “Merge & Center” Button

Questionnaire

I inserted a table so that my potential target audience can tick what option they prefer. this make the data much easier for me to handle

I want my questionnaire to look very organised and easy to read, therefore, I didn’t want as much space for tick boxes. So, I have instead used the symbol for tick boxes, to help my questionnaire look very neat.

Questionnaire Results

To be able to represent the percentages of my results from my questionnaire, I used graphs. These are much more helpful than writing the answers e.g. tally’s, because these help visually.

Lightening and contrasting

• This is in the enhance section, where you click on the brightness and contrast.

Adding glow

• On photoshop there is a guide button, which allows you to access the glow button

Changing Background Colour

• I firstly used the quick selection tool, then pressed “Ctrl + U” which then allows you to change the colour of the background

Changing background colour 2

• I had to firstly select the part of the image I wanted to change (background), and then dragged the chrome effect on to the selected part.

Adding Text boxes

• I used text boxes to be able to write in certain places on the page. I used text boxes on both word documents and photoshop documents

Masthead

Enhancing the “V”

• I selected the V with the “magic wand”, which highlighted it. Then I clicked on “stroke (outline) selection”, where I was able to fill the V with a pastel pink colour

Creating the Barcode

• I created the barcode by using normal lines, but just changing the sizes of the different lines, to create a barcode

Shadows

• Once I added the effects of the shadows, I then clicked on the effect sign, so I could change the size, distance and opacity of the shadow

Burn Tool

• I have used the burn tool to darken the eye-lashes and eye-brows, because they were slightly faint, as I had lightened the image

Double Page Spread

blur

I quick selected the part of the image I wanted to blur, then used the “Gaussian Blur” to smoothly blur the background

Brightness and Contrast the background

• Firstly, I used the quick selection tool to to select the background. Then I used the brightening and contrast tools to adjust the picture’s lighting

Transparent boxes

• First, I used a normal box shape, and made it white. Then I used the opacity effect, and made it 44%, to create a transparent background for the body text

Effects on text

• I couldn’t find the corret colour for my article title, so I used the effect- “differences”, which changes the colour on different parts of the text, to contrast the colour from the background. Hence the reason why there is many different colours on the text

Drop Cap’s On Publisher

• I inserted the drop caps from publishers drop cap buttons

Brush effects

• I used the bursh swirls and seeds, to create a flower effect, to be able to relate to my target audeicne who are mianly teenage girls

Photoshop content

• I wanted to create elegance to my double page spread, so I have added different types of frames from the content section in photoshop

Paint Brush Patterns

• I needed to add more colour to my double page spread, as there was too many shades of pink, so I decided to add colour through using paint brush patterns

White Brush

Brush for Eye Shadow

• I Used a normal brush with a light gold tint, but I changed the opacity to 12% to suite my models skin complexion

TOC

Using Shapes

• I used a line tool and ellipse tool, to create music notes

Magnetic lasso Tool

• After slightly rotating the picture to the angle the frame is at. I then used the magnetic lasso tool, to then cut out the part of the picture that was sticking out of the frame, so that I could create the effect that the picture is a part of the frame

Advert

Cropping

Because I want to advertise Make-up, I needed a close up of the face, therefore I used the crop tool

Smudge

The texture from the sheet in the background was very wrinkly, therefore I used the smudge tool to blend it in the background, to make a smooth texture

Healing Tool

Magnetic lasso Tool

• To be able to cut the perfume bottle out of this picture on the left, I used the magnetic lasso tool. This helped me to cut out the perfume bottle from the picture, as it selects the bottle from it’s outline

Microsoft Word

Text box

• I used the text boxes to be able to label the different features of a magazine, when I had to analyse them.

Adding Arrows

• I have used the arrows, to show which explanation (text box) goes with a certain feature on the image