1. My magazine evaluation
The magazine on the left is my
recreation of the magazine on the
right.
The programs that I used to recreate my magazine were:
 Photoshop
 InDesign
The tools that I used to recreate the magazine were
Photoshop tools
 Move tool
 Rectangular marquee tool
 Quick selection tool
 Eye dropper tool
 Spot healing brush tool
 Pencil tool
 Eraser tool
 Gradient tool
 Paint bucket tool
 Blur tool
 Sharpen tool, Smudge tool
 Horizontal text tool
 Hand tool
 Zoom tool
InDesign tools
 Text tool
 Arrow tool (select tool)
 Colour tool
 Fonts
The one I tried to recreateMy recreation
Photoshop
InDesign

2. How I re-created the magazine cover:
First I got the original magazine front cover and then placed my-myself
over the top of it so that just the background was showing.
Then I brought the text forward so that it overlapped me and matched
the original magazine cover to the best of my ability.
After that I added so more text that’s on the side of the front cover a
made sure that it matched the original.
Lastly I added the final piece of text in the centre of the magazine and
then I was done recreating my magazine.
I used a program called InDesign to type up all the text that I used in the recreation of my magazine.

3. For this unit we were set the task of choosing and then recreating a magazine of our choice to the
best of our ability. For this unit I chose to do a recreation of a TOTAL FILM magazine presenting
“Inception” the newest film to hit the big screen.
There were many challenges whilst recreating this magazine such as the fact that I had nether used
InDesign (a program that we used to create our fonts etc.) before which was quite a struggle to get
to grips with it at first, but as time went on and we progressed further into the unit I eventually got
the hang of it and was able to produce text that matched the text on the official magazine to the
best of my ability.
I think that the best part of this unit for me was when we got to a point whilst recreating our
magazines were you could see clear similarities between the recreated and the official magazine.
I also enjoyed working in Photoshop were we could tweak our photos and make them look as close
to the official as we could.
Although it took a while to get to grips with it I really enjoyed working with a new program such as
InDesign to help create the best recreation of an official TOTAL FILM magazine.
I think the biggest weakness while doing this unit was the fact that I was still pretty new to
Photoshop and I had nether used InDesign before so that all probably held me back a bit from
recreating