Editing - Magazine Cover

Photoshop

When making my Magazine cover I found that Photoshop was a very helpful software to use. When Making my cover I wanted high quality professional looking photos and Photoshop helped me to achieve this. First I used the 'Magnetic Lasso' tool which allowed me to delete the bright green background. After removing the background I then used the 'Sponge tool' which allowed me to touch up any imperfections and make the image bright and of a high quality. I found Photoshop a particularly useful tool when making my magazine cover as I could achieve a professional looking photo that stands out on both my magazine and the shop shelves. 

iStudio
Once all the images were edited, I then used the iStudio software to make my magazine cover. I chose this software as it allowed me to create layers within my magazine so that I could overlap images and sub stories. iStudio also offered a variety of different textures filters for shapes, i chose the washed out letter fill as I feel that it tied in well with the WW2/evacuation theme. This therefore created a more professional and effective magazine cover than will stand out to my audience on the shop shelves. I also found that iStudio offers a variety of shapes that I can use to present my sub stories. For example, the 'soldier' sub story I used a half oval shape as I feel that is a similar shape to a bomb which again ties in with my WW2 theme.