Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

As you can see from my Preliminary Task and my Main Task, I have developed my Photoshop skills a lot during the course of this project. My front covers vary a lot, for my Preliminary Task I didn’t experiment much with using crop tools on the image because it was such a basic photo it didn’t need any work done to it. Whereas for my Main Task it took a lot of work to get the main image perfect, I had to crop out each individual person and ‘clone tool’ their tops because the words on logo’s on them were distracting, I also had to re-add the background in. On my Preliminary Task, I believe I used too many fonts and it looked very messy because I didn’t have a set colour scheme, it doesn’t look very exciting either, it looks quite rushed. Whereas my Main Task has a structured layout, a set colour scheme and its looks exciting with big, bold fonts. I also added other images to my Main Task front cover to show the magazine will be exciting, it also has a lot of cover lines, whereas my Preliminary Task doesn’t have many cover lines and no other images. I also learnt a lot more about using ‘strokes’ to enhance words and objects, my Main Task looks bold and it stands out, whereas my Preliminary Task looks flat  and boring. The contents pages look totally different, my Preliminary Task looks basic, I couldn’t even call it a contents page, I have developed so many more skills on making a good contents page. I learnt about ‘Regulars’ and ‘Features’ by researching other contents pages, about adding photo’s so the reader thinks the magazine is worth reading, aligning everything properly to make it look professional and making everything look as exciting as possible for the reader.