Construction of double page spread

1) To contruct my double page spread the first step I took was importing the chosen main picture. I resized the image so that it covered half the width of the page and ensured that I left a small gap between the top of the page and the image. When I clicked and dragged the image into the right position, I used the Hue/saturation tool bar to change the image colour into black and white as I wanted to follow the colour scheme of black and white images shown through the front page and contents page.

2)Next I used the rectangle tool to draw a box at the top of the page as a banner, this is highlighted in black. I added to pieces of text 'New Artist' and the magazine name 'Pulse', both are highlighted in pink to follow the general colour scheme, the two pieces of text are deliberatlely in different styled font as I wanted to use the same style font for 'Pulse' as was shown on the front page. Then I used the eraser tool to created clear lines in the banner.

3) In the next step I added in the main title for the double page spread, this text is highlighted in black to ensure it is easy to read on the white background, and I clicked and dragged it into position tot he left just underneath the black banner. At the bottom of the page I added two separate page numbers in each corner, they are both highlighted in pink as they can both be clearly seen on the white background and with the image in the background.

4)The next step was adding two columns of text for the main article, for the first letter of the first column I made the 'Y' slightly larger than the rest of the article and highlighted it red. The questions in the article are highlighted pink and I ensured it was still easily readable on the white background, the answers were highlighted in black, this makes it easy for the reader to distinguish between the questions and answers.

5) Finally I typed the letter 'C' as a piece of text and used the scale to enlarge it as the biggest piece of text on the page, I clicked and dragged this layer so that it is situated behind the article. I lowered the opacity level to make the letter slightly transparent to ensure the article was still easily readable.