Double Page Spred Development

In this post, I am going to walk through thte stages of how I created my DPS

(Double Page Spread);

To begin with I decided that I was going to use one image as the background for my page, however the image I have chosen has an extremely bland and boring background so I made the decision to remove the background and replace it with a white fill. for the second stage I duplicated the image and placed it above the first, I then went back to the first image and placed a movement blur onto it so as to distort the image. When setting the blending layer of the duplicated image to linear light I was pleasently surprised by the result and therefore decided to keep it. To add some interest in the image I placed a series of colour around it, I liked the idea of a fiery theme so I stuck with the reds and orange in order to achieve this.

To add even more interest in the image, instead of keeping just a plain 2 tone colour around the image I used to liquify tool in Photoshop to blend the colours together and create what seems to be flmaes actually emerging from the background, I thought that this added in a more dynamic overall view to the image. The next stage was to start creating the page itself, I began by placing the header for the page in a black box at the top of it, this was to keep the magazines theme consistent and the contrast between the black and white really set of the image, I also added in the date of the magazine issue and the web address of the magazine as well, these are both fitted in above the page header.

Final DPS:

This is the final DPS, i have added in an interview to the pages so that it runs together, to start it off I used the 'W' in a larger font and a diffrerent cover so that it draws attention and people want to read the article, the way I set about laying the interview out was to have the interviewers questions in a different colour to the answers, I felt that this was an importanat factor as it allowed a clear separartion from the 2 and meant it wasnt going to get confusing for the reader. Before the interview starts I decided that it would be a better idea to put in a couple of paragraphs giving a bit of history and background information from which the questions in teh article would arise from and this again allowed the continuity to flow over the 2 pages.

Once I had finished writing up the article I decided to add an incentive to the readers which may also have caught their eye, on the right hand side at the bottom I added in a black box and put details about free merchandise, in this case 3 free songs from the artists album, as this was to help create an interest and would be a USP for my magazine. After going over the page quickly to check it I noticed I didn't have a page number, so I flicked through a couple of magazines that I had laying around and saw that not all of them had a page number on each page, therefore I've decided to only number one page of the DPS.