Skills development journal

Skills development journal

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  SKILLS DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL By Marcus Macksoud
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  FRONT COVER These are initial masthead ideas that I designed using the help of DaFont.com. I wanted to create a square/block style masthead. This is the final masthead design I have decided to use in my final magazine. I’ve used the bevel and emboss effects to make it stand out.
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  FRONT COVER This is beforeI This is my main article used the image for my front spot healer cover. I have used the and the spot healer to make the level models face and skin modifier clearer. tools.
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  FRONT COVER I used the level adjustment tool to make the image darker to make it stand out behind the text.
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  FRONT COVER I inserted a caption for my main article using the text tool and the Bauhaus 93 font. I then used the bevel and emboss and the drop shadow layer options to make the text stand out; I have featured (where I have used the these options on bevel and emboss and the majority of drop shadow layer the text on my options.) front cover
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  FRONT COVER I have used the rectangle shape tool for the background to the skyline and by-line. This is my finished magazine front cover, I have arranged the layers to make the models head go over the masthead using the polygonal lasso tool.
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  CONTENTS I cropped thisimage down to place into my contents page using the magic wand tool, the I rotated it so it would fit in with the rest of the page.
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  CONTENTS This was myoriginal finished contents page but I felt that the background was very plain and I couldn’t fit any more images in it I took up the white space by The circles take up the white space adding opaque circles. I made but do not distract t the reader from them opaque by using the opacity the rest of the page. layer option tool.
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  DPS I usedthe same font from DaFont.com to keep with the house style. I copied over a small version of the masthead to keep with popular magazine conventions.
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  DPS Usingthe rectangular marquee tool, I copied a small chunk of the background image and stretched it across the screen to make it look like the whole image, without stretching the models appearance and make it look more professional.