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More Changes made

I had decided i didn't like the previous contents page I made, however it is very similar to this one. This is not finished yet.
I have included links to social networking as social networking is an interest of my target audience, and it also it a way of promoting my magazine in other ways, and creating a bigger relationship with my readers.
Where i have wrote the page number by the pictures, i used the spray eraser tool, which gives a spray paint effect, so the erasing has dispersed over the area i removed. The pictures are black and white so that the main picture (Of priority) is the definite main attraction, i have also shown this by giving the page number of the main picture a different colour and font (the font being the one used by the typography of the magazine title) giving links that it is the main picture, again.

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This is the top of my contents page. As my magazine is the summer special, so it shows a seasonal theme. Then i used the smudge tool to smudge the picture with the black to give a good effect when looking at the magazine, and stopping it being really block like from the picture to the black background.

Background

I have chosen a picture to be at the bottom of the contents. I erased the background from the picture alone, then placed it onto my black background on my contents page. I decided to keep the landscape of the sea and land in the background as on the black it gave a good effect. Also it is good to have pictures of my band on the front page as this months magazine specialises my band.

Changes to contents

This is the original picture which i will crop to put the picture at the top of my new contents page.

This is using the rule of thirds, to evenly include the same proportion of sand, sea and sky.

This one uses the rule of thirds to separate the sea, the sand, and the stoney sand.

I have boosted the colours in both of the images. I think i will use the bottom one as it is just for the very top of the page, as I am changing the layout of my contents page to be more like the one below.
As i found my previous contents page did not look mature enough or right for my magazine, to suit the front cover and the double page spread.

Edit of Double Page Spread

I decided to put a quotation from one of the band members at the top of the page, as it was a sentence that caught my eye, and could entice readers into reading the text below.

Double Page Spread