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Development Diary…
I started with the background for my contents page. To do this I duplicated the layer that I had already opened by going to the layers bar, right clicking on the current layer and selecting ‘duplicate layer’.
Once I had done this I decided I wanted to have a gradient on the background of my contents page as this would keep with the running house style of magazine as it is what my front cover had. To do this I used the gradient tool in Photoshop and selected the two same colours that I used on my front cover (pale pink and light grey).
This is what the background looked like once I had ‘dragged’ the gradient over the page.
I then looked to add the main ‘title’ to the page or where it would say ‘Contents’.I thought it important to make this point stand out to my audience so I decided to put the text within a box – I just used the shape tool for this and set it to the rectangle.
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The next step involved me resizing and positioning the shape in the correct place. For this I used the keyboard shortcut ‘cmd’ and ‘T’ and then pressed entre when I was happy with it.
I then added in the text.
For this I used the text tool in Photoshop on the tool bar.
I then changed the text using the text tool bar at the top of the page and positioned and resized it accordingly.
This is what it looked like.
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The next step was adding in the listings and editors letter. For this I used the same method and all the same tools that I used to make the ‘Contents’ ‘title’ at the top of the page.
Again, for continuity purposes I wanted to add the same splatter effect that I used on the cover of my media product. I used the same brushes that I downloaded previously and resized them and changed the level of opacity to match that of the cover.
Finally, I added in the images for the contents page. I made these different so that the different images could correspond with different listings.
To add and edit the images I followed all the same steps that I did for the cover images. I then resized them and positioned them in the same place too.