Lesson 4

Lesson 4: 29-1-09

In todays lesson, we had a photoshop tutorial consisting of an expert in the field coming to discuss the benefits and functions of photoshop, which we can then use when producing our magazine. Photoshop is a program on the computer which helps adjust a particular image to fit our own purpose. We got taught how to use the basic skills we need in order to use photoshop effectively. In the second part of our double lesson, we started to focus on an indepth analysis of two front cover of magazines which are from universities. 'Newsman' is a magazine aimed at undergraduates of Newman College, and 'Quad' is a magazine aimed at postgraduates from Queens College in the University of London. Both differ very much in the way they are presented and we looked at the different aspects like font, layout, titles, colour and the overall presentation. From this we could make a finialised conclusion, and produce a detailed textual analysis which is our homework task for next week.