Working on my front cover for the sixth form prospectus has enabled me to develop the essential skills needed to use Photoshop. The front cover that i have been working on is now complete and i now look forward to creating my own music magazine. Creating my own magazine front cover and contents page is going to be much easier because i am now familiar with the different tools in the Photoshop programme. I have learnt the simplest skills which seemed to be quite hard at the beginning and the hard skills too. For instance editing an image seemed very hard to start with. I attempted to edit the image several times but it seemed impossible. I discovered that this was due to the fact that i wasn't selecting the specific layer that i was going to edit. To edit an image in Photoshop i have to work with layers and select a specific layer to edit a certain image.



When editing an image, i discovered that the image size has to be the correct size therefore i have to consider the pixel dimensions so that my picture isn't wider than the number of pixels that i can display my computer monitor. I struggled with image sizing because i could not decide on the right size and this shows on the way the pictures on my front cover appear. The image size has to be precise. For instance, if i choose a small image size when editing, it will appear distorted when i change its scale to fit a larger space. Similarly, If i select a very large image size when editing, the image will appear crammed up on my front cover when i scale it. Hopefully when i create my own magazine, i will size my pictures precisely so that it looks flawless.


I have also learnt to use different tool on the programme including the crop tool. I can use the crop tool to crop out any unwanted parts of the image I'm working on so that they are completely eliminated. I used this tool to crop out the bin that was on the front of the main school entrance picture. I also used it to eliminate the many books and bags that were on the table for the picture i took in the library. As a result the picture only focuses on the two people studying and the computers behind them which is exactly how i wanted it to look. I have also learnt to apply different colour filters to make the colours on my pictures look more vivid. i look forward to using these on my music magazine because I shall be using a lot of bright colours.


Below is my completed school prospectus front cover.