Evaluation of finished products!

I am particularly pleased with the overall layout of my front cover. It looks almost professional with part of the main masthead covered as if to connote that it is such a popular student magazine that the target audience (students) already know what it is called! I am also chauffed with the way the text from the cover lines is wrapped around the main image (which is in a medium close up). The name I felt had a particularly exciting sound and created an almost youthful feel to the magazine. Passion(fruit)- also connotes the passion students have for learning and for life in general.
I was not very happy with the colourscheme in the end and felt it didnt stand out enough, and the bottom text could not be read clearly against his body and arms. I would have prefered to change the colourscheme to a brighter more attracting set of colours. However, it wasn't completely bad considering the yellow connected with his t-shirt and attracted the eye on the text. I felt researching an existing magazine cover was very helpful to determine essential items I needed to include on my front cover and contents page. To improve, if I had had more time I would have liked to create a more poloshed apperance, maybe a few more pictures with a slight opaque look. (I could have achieved this by changing the opacity of the image) however, I would have liked to experiment with the masthead more and changed the font to an almost informal yet, professional tone to represent my target audience more precisely.
On the whole, I am really pleased with my finished products and feel proud of what I have created in such a short amount of time! Throughout this project I have learnt many useful skills including how to use photoshop properly in a more advanced way, how to edit images to my advantage and how to create a finished product using the technology available.