Using Publisher to create the magazine advertisement…

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Inserting images

Choosing the insert tab and selecting ‘Picture’ opened this box:

Which allows me to select the image I want to use from my area.

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Editing the image

I have ‘Recolored’ the image so that it is now in black and white…

This shows how I changed the ‘Brightness’ of the image, which made it look like this…

As the ‘Brightness’ made the image too dark, I also changed the ‘Contrast’…

So the image now looks like this…

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Inserting and formatting text

On the Insert tab, I can choose to ‘Draw Text Box’ so that text can be inserted on to the image.

Here is the text box I have inserted, and below are the tools that allow me to format the text so that it suits the house style I have chosen.

These are the main tools that I used:

Changing the font, i.e. Calibri, Cambria, Georgia etc.Adding font decoration, bold, italic and underline.

Resizing text, i.e. Size 18pt, Size 20pt and Size 24pt.Changing font colour, e.g. RED, BLUE, GREEN.

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Adding Auto-shapesI have used lines and stars on the magazine advertisement, and this is how I inserted them: I also formatted the auto-shapes, like this:

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