LO1 Pre-lim task for a college magazine

I am going to pastiche this magazine as it has a clear house style, a clear and straight forward masthead and as a professional looking main cover image.

This task was important to do as this shows I understand the conventions of what go into a magazine, which will help a lot with producing the final product.

This is the dialogue box in Photoshop, its settings I have inputted are the basis for a magazine, as it is has the average size of 21 x 29.5cm with a high resolution for printing, which is 300. I also set the background to transparent as this makes it easy to work with.

I added a ruler (By going to View > Ruler) and then dragged from the ruler to get a margin on to the page, this will help me with organising the different features on to the page (e.g. Masthead, Main cover line, main cover image etc.).

This is how I edited the text colour.

This is how I edited the texts style, I used the stroke to give the text a thick outer line and make it stand out more, and then I used the drop shadow to give the text a bit more depth.

I mainly used the spot healing tool when editing the picture of the model (Apart from the lasso tool to select what areas I want to edit) to get rid of his spots, as shown above.

 I used the Elliptical marquee tool on an image and then inverted the selected so that it go rid of the outer image that I did not want, whilst maintaining the circle shape I wanted and then added a stroke so it has the outer thickness.

I think the positives of my image was the editing of the photos on the magazine such as the circle shaped image of the lockers and the models face, which I edited out some spots and gave a bordered line to make the image stand out.I also think that the Masthead stands out on the magazine, this is because of the stroke and drop shadow. 
I could improve what content is in the Magazine and sort out the composition so that there is less white space and so I include more content.