Magazine Work In Progress

First I've done something research on magazine cover and layout through Pinterest, then choose one of them to start of.

Then I took some pictures of a person and to make sure that the posture and facial expression are as similar as possible.

In InDesign, I typed all the texts on the magazine front cover, also to adjust it to the right font size and change the font colour.

As all the texts are typed up, I then insert the wanted picture and place it on the template to finish off the magazine cover.

After doing the magazine cover, I then start onto the double page content. First I insert a photo in Photoshop and do some editing, because there are some white rectangle boxes with a see-through letter in the original magazine, so i used the horizontal type mask tool to do the same thing to make the spread page look identical. 

Then back onto InDesign, i insert the psd file in there and to transform it into the right size to fit in the page. 

For the other page, I inserted the text but there is a black box with a capital letter 'D' in it, so I used Photoshop to create it.

First I coloured the background into black, then I added a text box to insert the capital letter D with the correct white colour font in. 

After that, I inserted the black box that I just made in Photoshop into InDesign. As the black box needs to go into the paragraph, I used Text Wrap to adjust the black box in the right position. And I finished the magazine cover and double spread page. 

Final Design of No Staples Book

No Staples Book Work In Progress

After scanning my drawings, I open the file in Photoshop and do some editing.

Blue is the main colour of my no staples book, so I decided to use different blue tone colours to fill in the sea shells. First I added a new layer, then use lasso tool to select the wanted sea shell and apply the colour that I want, then do the same with the rest of the sea shells. After that, add the title 'Sea Shells' on the right position, so that when the book is formed, the title will be on the front cover.

For the poster, I move the sea shells to the position that I wanted and add blue gradient colour at the back as the background.

No staples Initial Drawings

This is my drawings of seashell, and it is the theme of my no staples book. And in order to draw the sea shells, I've done some research on Pinterest and found some pictures and photos of sea shells.