Before and After,draft magazine

 Before: This photo has not been photoshopped. The background is plain and the photo itself hasn't been corrected with the eraser tool. The background needs to be changed because at the moment the clothes blend it in it looks very boring and not eye catching at all. The photo itself needs to be touched up so that it is neater. The fly away hairs need to be removed and the jumper looks too baggy and unflattering in the photo.

After: This is the photo after it has been photoshopped. The fly away hairs have been erased and smoothed out. The background has been swapped with a more interesting pattern that fits my magazine type. The baggy top has been shaped using the eraser tool. I decided to choose the background that I did because it suits the theme of beauty and health. It also complemented the clothes worn in the photo as you don't want the picture taking away from the contents of the magazine. I decided to place my image in the middle of the magazine so that the contents surrounds the photo like a frame. This way readers are automatically drawn to the cover and then the contents of the magazine. The colour scheme for the magazine is pink, white and black. However i decided to chose a blue texts for the contents, this is so that they stand out against the pale, muted background. 

The layout conventions I used included using a big bold masthead situated at the top of the page to grab readers attention. I also used cover lines to give readers information of what they can find within the magazine. The barcode is in the bottom left hand corner and the price and date are in the bottom right, this is so that the audience knows how much it is but that it is not the main attraction. 

My magazine could be improved by changing the size of the text so that it stands out more, this is because I feel like the photo is the main thing that the audience will see, however I want it to be the cover lines that are spotted first.