DPS screen shots By Caitlin O’Mara

The first thing I did to complete my double page spread was I edited a photo I took. I did this by loading the photo onto Photoshop and using the different effect to change the tone of the photo. I also changed the brightness on the photo. All the editing I did resulted to the picture getting this dark blue effect.

I then added the photo that I edited on Photoshop. I did this by opening it onto InDesign. When it was open I sized it to fit onto the first page of the double page. I did this so I could write my article on the right hand side.

After adding the photo I added a title. I used a large font for the main title ‘who is she’. I then used a slightly smaller font for ‘ANGIE SMAIL’. Finally I wrote ‘Q&A’ in a very small font as it was the least important information. The font I used was a non bold, italic font. The colours I used were black and a navy blue for a plain effect.

On this screen shot I added a small introduction about ‘Angie’. As you can see from the screen shot there is a ‘A’ which is larger than the font that is used for the paragraph itself. The colour I used for the font is a dark navy blue. This is so I keep to the simple colour scheme. I also added a line under the paragraph to separate the introduction from the Q&A itself.

In this screen shot you can see that I have developed my double spread by adding questions and answers underneath my introduction. The layout of my double page spread article is I have wrote each paragraph in columns. I like the way I have set this out because it makes it look interesting to read as well as professional.

In my final screen shot I have made some adjustments to my double page spread. Firstly I have completed my article by adding more questions and making the question itself a yellow font. I also got rid of the numbers before each question as I didn’t think that they were needed. Secondly I added a ‘News circle’ on my picture which tells you where you can get all the latest news related to my magazine. Finally I added the title of the magazine along with a website link at the bottom right corner, I felt this was needed to show that tis article has came from unplugged.