Magazine practical task evaluation

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Create a blogpost called 'Magazine practical task evaluation' and complete the following tasks:

1) Save your finished Photoshop magazine cover as a JPEG image and upload it to your evaluation blogpost.



2) Write an evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine?

 Yes, i believe i succeeded at creating an ESPN sports cover. Within 2 of the ESPN covers i got my inspiration from, i focused on making the back-ground fade from one colour to another and the basketball balancing on the actors hand. The rest of the magazines that i came across had features from other aspects of the sporting industry, a main headline and logos. Due to my poster being having an American theme, i had to make sure that the cover had a dollar sign instead of a pound sign to make it look more follow the theme of the magazine.

3) Put your cover alongside a couple of genuine covers of your chosen magazine. How professional is your work alongside genuine examples?

 Image result for espn coverImage result for basketball stack magazines

 I think my magazine cover looks pretty good in comparison to the ESPN covers along side it. However, if i made it made the test allocated to the coulombs, it would have looked a lot more structured. 

4) What is the strongest aspect of your work?

  • colour grading
  • consistent theme
  • the ball looks like its actually balancing on his finger
  • has a logo
  • has a bar-code
  • has a price tag
  • has a feature
  • has sporting logos
  • has a headline

5) What is the weakest aspect of your Photoshop magazine cover? 

  • doesn't follow the coulomb rule
  • has a lot of blank space 

6) What would you do differently if you completed this assignment again?

  • stripping the background away from aranjit

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