Firstly I opened Adobe Photoshop CS6 to start editing images for my school magazine

I created a template for the size I want the magazine to be.

To change the background of my magazine cover I pressed the “gradient tool”

I then pressed on the “colour picker” option and chose my colour for the background and once that is done the background will fade from the colour I chose to white

I used two different text tools to create my masthead. One of the layers for “THE” and another for “School Update”. I could then choose the font I wanted and the colour of the text

I then inserted the image I was going to use for the front cover of the magazine and then dragged it on to the canvas.

To get rid of the background surrounding the image I used the lasso tool which allowed me to draw around the image and cut out anything that was unwanted. This meant I could re-scale and resize the image to what I wanted

I then used the text tool to create the coverline for the magazine and changed the font colour to white

To make a graphic feature for the front cover I used the shape tool to insert a star shape and then entered a new layer using the text tool to right inside the shape saying “its a new term”

I then made four more shapes using the shape tool of a normal square for the other coverlines that will be in the magazines. After I had done this I made four different layers for the boxes to have their other coverlines using the text tool

Then I entered a image of a barcode to place at the bottom left hand side of the magazine