Development for page spread

This is my final page spread for the magazine. I chose to do the fruit because it has more colour and there is more you can do with fruits than fatty foods. I drew the image on the left hand side and edited it in photoshop. Here are the steps of how i put it together.

1. I originally wanted my page to look like this so I firstly changed the title from 'Title' to 'Sweet forest fruit'. I then typed in the text and re-arranged the wording so it would fit in well on the page.

I then drew out on a plain sheet of A4 paper the design i want on my page spread which was fruits. I wanted to do something simple so i just drew an orange, some strawberries and a lime. I first drew it in pencil but i then went over it in a black felt tip pen.

After that, i then scanned in my image and sent it to myself so i could download it onto the Mac. I opened the image in photoshop and used the Magic Wand tool to select the area i wanted to colour. I did this for each area and added colour to make it look like the fruit.

Then i wanted to make a background so i could decide whether the layout looked better as plain white or with a background. To do this i opened a new page in photoshop and chose the gradient tool. I then came out firstly with blue and orange but i wanted to be able to change the colours. So i rasterized it, and changed the hue/saturation to get these colours.

I did the exact same thing (hue/Saturation) to get all these different colours for my background. With each background i placed it behind the fruit image and the text.