Breakdown of Contents Page

For my music magazine, I was required to create a contents page. Upon research I decided to add an editor’s letter, subscription that included an image and addition sources to the magazine as well as a different sections to categorize the many different aspects the music magazine would include. Below is a break down of how I created the contents page.

I created the contents page on Photoshop.

Dark purple was used and with the bucket tool I filled the document with the colour. This was going to be the background.

Using the shape tool, I created to identical thin rectangle lines. On was then coloured using the layer style neon green while the other was coloured using the layer style neon blue. The two lines were then readjusted diagonally and crossing each other at the top of the contents page.

A third thicker line was created that went across the page. It was coloured using the layer style neon purple. This was used the banner for the title Contents.

A slogan “this is the part were it starts to make sense...” was created with the text tool. Using desirable font and colour, it was arranged just below the banner.

The text “editor’s letter”, also using the text font was created separately from the actual letter itself. This was done so the title could easily be manipulated to suit the editor’s letter itself without causing any disruptions to it.

Four sections were created to categorize the content the magazine held. Each of the four sections had a different font and colour that was also used to correspond with the content that fell under that category. After creating the four sections, I rearranged them to all fit in the contents page without looking squashed or compromised.

I then print screened the front page and pasted it into a new Photoshop document were it was resized, copied and pasted into the contents page. Arranging it to the bottom right-hand side of the contents page, final size adjustments were made.

The subscription text was created by the text tool and coloured using layer style yellow metallic.