This is how far I have got with my contents page today, I have added a picture of my main artist, a picture in the bottom box which I can write about tomorrow. I have also cut round a picture of ryan to be the editor, and have written a comment from him about the main artist.

This is the start of my contents page, to start off I have taken inspiration from Q magazine and have decided to use red boxes as the background, one box being for the editor, one for highlights and I havent decided which the other one will be yet :)

This is my edited picture. First I increased the brightness of the picture to make it stand out more, and went round the picture very carefully with an eraser so it was smooth around the edges, I also changed the background to an off white colour, so its not too bright white, just dark enough to let the picture stand out.

The next stage was to cut the picture out from the background using the magnetic lasso tool, as you can see I need to tidy up the edges and create a background!

This is the picture I have chosen to use on my front cover, I chose the picture because I like the pose, her eyes and the positioning of her hair. The lighting is a little dark so I may have to edit it to make the picture slightly brighter, but overall I am happy with the results.
Also Im glad I took lots of pictures on the two photoshoots I did, as it gave me a wide range of choice when it came to choosing which picture I wanted to use.

These are all the pictures I took while I was out on photoshoots, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to acheive, so I got them done relatively quickly. The ones of Alice were more extensive than the bottom two, as I was happy with those straight away. The ones of Alice took time, took brainstorming, but I really enjoyed going out, getting to grips with the camera, trying out different camera angles, high shots, low shots, close ups, medium close ups, two shots etc.

This is the camera I used to take the pictures for my media productions.