Looking back at my preliminary tasks that I done, I feel that my development in using photoshop has improved a lot. Also my general understanding of design and layout has improved a lot aswell. As I have become more expierienced in both of these areas, It has allowed my designs to be a lot better than my original ones. The new skills I have acuired in areas of photoshop such as, using and adjusting curves, histograms and levels has allowed me to make the professionalism of my magazine pages to be of a much higher standard.

Here Is the front cover for my preliminary task.
As you can see from this my design was not of the highest standard. I didn't know much about colour schemes or design and layout. The main challenge I had whilst creating this was my lack of understanding about how to use photoshop. I overcame this by attending photoshop worksohops in order to increase my understanding of photoshop and the tools needed to create a professional standard magazine.

As you can see the difference in professional quality between the two front covers is very noticable.

During the creation from the prelim front cover to the real front cover I mastered
my ability to use tools such as the magic wand tool,
lasso tool and everything else I mentioned above. Due to this it enabled me to make my designs more professional and of a higher quality.