Construction of Contents Page For My Music Magazine

To start off my contents page I decided to create my text. I already knew what text I was going to put into my contents page, but it was just a case of typing it up and seeing whether it would fit and what changes should be made to make it look more professional. This is what it looked like below:

To do this I had used the 'Horizontal Type Tool', then selected the font type I wanted to use, then used the 'Toggle the Character and Paragraph Panels' Tool,  and selected this tool so that the cover-lines would stand out against the other text. I then selected the 'Set the text colour' Tool which allowed me to changed the colour of the text to red, the same colour as the masthead. (To do this I copied my masthead onto the same page selected the 'Set the text colour' Tool, then clicked on the red part of the masthead)

I then added more cover lines to the contents page, using the same technique as above, and then I used the 'Line Tool' and holding down the shift key to keep it straight, made a horizontal and vertical line, so that it would break the page up. I then added the masthead by dragging it into Photoshop and put it at the top of my contents page and at the bottom of my contents page. I then selected the 'Horizontal Type Tool',  and created a new text layer to create my title and contents page number.

After this I decided to put my main image on my contents page, to do this I opened up a new window of my image, which I had previously photoshopped, I then used this tool  and dragged it from that window to the window I had my contents page on. My next step was to put my front cover that I had made next to my subscription as this is what music magazines put alongside the subscription text. To do this I dragged it the same way I had previously dragged my image. I then opened my front cover in another window and dragged the background of that page and transferred it to my contents page, so that it would be exactly the same colour/style, and then pressed the 'command tool' and 'T' button on my keyboard and resized it to fit in my contents page. I then added my date, using the 'Horizontal Type Tool' and used the same technique I used previous. I then made my final image into      a JPEG, by pressing 'File', 'Save As', then pressed the drop-down arrow and selected 'JPEG'.