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From this year in media studies I feel like I have learn more than I could have imagined since I started. I thought I knew a majority of what fireworks could do but after creating my music magazine products and compering them to my attempt at creating a school magazine I realise that I didn’t have any idea about some of the most important features of fireworks. For example guidelines: i didn’t know what they were when we started the course, but as I got into creating my music magazine I realised how important they were. Guidelines helped make my magazine look more professional as I could easily place text or images perfectly in line with each other. This gave uniformity to my products especially on my double page spread. Looking back to my school magazine products they look very rushed and unorganised. When I entered text all I did was eyeball it inline with the other text or use the same text box. Another thing which I feel helped me out massively is learning about leading, kerning and the different ways that text orientation could fit to be more appealing to an audience.on my front cover I used the alignments to fit to a side of the page. Left aligned to the text on the left. But I also chose to use justified alignment for the other artists in the magazine as I wanted to make the text fit in a box from the right side to the vertical line in the plus symbol. In my school magazine I didn’t really know how to use them to fit into the magazine, for example on my front cover the cover lines are centralised to a box, this lookout of place, unprofessional and takes up space. Another thing which I realised was important later on was a small colour scheme or a limited one. On my school magazine front cover there are too many colours, I attempted to go for a colour scheme but used 6 colours just in the text of it. On my music magazine after my audience research I decided to stick to dark blue, cyan and white. This meant I had a colour for dark and light backgrounds as well as a colour to emphasise important things, like names and titles. I learnt about how to use the magic wand tool properly, although I learnt over use made it look very unrealistic. On of the things I new I wanted was for the masthead of the magazine to go behind my models head. But because there was a background I couldn’t do it ver easily. On my school magazine I changed the text to a bitmap and erased the text behind the head to make it look like it was behind her. However although I didn’t know how to use the magic want I later saw that the background was too complex meaning it would have been hard to delete the background anyway. With my final products I tried to get a plain background so I could do this. I also wanted to add a pattern behind her but the lighting of the photo itself didn’t lend to well to it, but just with a plain background it didn’t fit well either.