Step I've taken working with the Apple Macs to create my music magazine cover:-

1. Before i opened 'pages' uploaded the photo's i took in my photoshoot onto the Mac, and i then used the red eye tool to erase the red eyes from the main photo i want to use to insure this picture is good quailitly.
2. Opened pages
3. Dragged the photo i want to use as the cover background onto the page
4. Changed the size to fit the whole page
5. Created a text box and typed 'Nerdy' the title of the magazine into it, move it to the top, where the gap on the wallpaper is and tried different fonts, colours and sizes until i found something which i think suited my magazine best and was the most visually effective.
6. Added the other titles and storylines to the magazine cover trying different front, colours, sizes and positions. i decided to make some of the stories on my magazine about the 'girl band', (which i decided to call 'Scarlett' from thinking about the red colour theme i've been using). I decide to make some of the writting purple and yellow as they're both bright colours which will stand out and they're colour oppisite so they work well together