Step i took to create my school magazine cover

When i beganning using the Macs to create my front cover i found i was working very slowly as i hadn't had much experience with the Macs before, but soon i got use to the different softwear and i found i began to work faster and learnt new things...

Steps in took to create my School/College magazine cover:-

1. I firstly opened 'Pages' and dragged my picture onto the page
2. I then changed the photo to the correct size making sure it fitted the page correctly and was placed where i wanted
3. When it got to putting my text onto the page i realised i hadnt thought carefully enough when taking my photo's as i had used, as in my photo there were a lot of colours, which made it more difficult to choose what colours i could use for my text as i needed it to be clear and stand out alot, (this is something i need to think about when i do my main task). After thinking about how to solve this problem i realised i had to chooses, either to change my photo or to try to use the same photo and work around the problem. As i think this photo was really effective i decided to try to work around this problem
4. In order to make the name of the magazine stand out i decided to put a shape behind this, so there were no distractions from the word.
5. I decided on using a rectangle behind to the name of magazine in order to keep it simple, and i decided to have this rectangle dark green as a way for bringing the school colours into the cover.
6. I lastly added all the text to the cover. Before doing this i looked at my research and thought carefully about what type of storylines would suit this magazine cover, and i also tried different colours and fonts for the letting in order to make this look best i possibly could.