The programme I used to create my front cover, double page spread and contents page was Microsoft Publisher. I had used this programme previously (to create my preliminary magazine), but never in as much depth as whilst creating the magazine. I didn't have much difficulty using Publisher, as the layout and tools are fairly similar to the other Microsoft programmes I use frequently, such as Word and Powerpoint. However, it is of course a completely different programme, and has many features that are not available on the others. I found the guidelines and boundaries useful, as they show you clearly where everything is on the page, and allows you to line things up, ensuring they are all within the same proximity as each other. I found this especially useful when creating the coverlines on the front cover and when creating the lists of contents on the contents page.
To take the photos for my magazine, I borrowed a friend's camera - Nikon D90 with a 50mm 1.4 lens. I hadn't used a professional camera before, but with some guidance from my friend, and lots of practice I got the shots I wanted, and am very happy with the results.
To edit the photographs, I used Photoshop CS3. I tried not to edit the photographs too much, as I didn't want them to look too over-airbrushed and unrealistic. I tweaked the colours using curves, then made them richer by enhancing the saturation. After I had done that, I used the healing brush tool just to remove a few minor flaws. This was the first time I had used this version of Photoshop, and I did find it quite complicated at first, but after a while I got used to how it worked, and began to understand how the tools worked so it became easy to work with.
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