When designing my front page I used this software called Microsoft
publisher, this programme lets you create a variety of designs as the software
itself has a range of templates to choose from for things such as broachers, leaflet
and other things. This software was good to use for my front page as the tools
was easy to use and give me a good variety of tools to choose from. The images
and text were very easier to move around the page to wherever I would like to
place them which made this software great to use, I used the wrap text tool
where I choose ‘square’ to move all my images and text around with. The proportions
on the page were an advantage as it gave me guidelines on where about to keep
all of the design inside of so that front page would look professional. The colour
tool was good to use as when I was choosing the colour scheme for my magazine because
it let me see all the colours that could be used on my magazine and then went
on to pick which colours I would use for the house style, I chose the red,
black, white and grey.
I used this software called adobe photoshop to use some of
the great tools this software has. The tool
I used the most was the lasso tool that let me cut out the backgrounds from
some of my images so that I would just have the part of the image I needed. I didn’t use this programme for a lot of my
media designs as I thought that the software was quite hard to use and pick up
on which would have been time consuming when creating my magazine. So I just
used the tools that I needed.