Best tips on making a magazine!?!


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Best tips on making a magazine!?

hi
my sister is in year 6 (primary) and she told me to ask what is the best tips on making a magazine (even though i told her a few they wernt good enough. lol) she is learning about media and needs to make a magazine. can you get her of my back and tell her a few good tips on making a magazine and what does it have to have in it for you to buy it?

mind my spelling mistakes but i am really tired!


Answers:

What kind of magazine would she make? I suggest that you scan different magazine types, then try to draw styles from them.

Some important points my professor told us was that we should never leave unnecessary white spaces in a page, and that we should limit our font styles to Arial, Courier, Times New Roman and all the other common (and simple) fonts. Try to keep the page as simple and clean as possible. Never overcrowd the page. Enhance your page with colors but don't overdo it: refrain from using loud colors and color combinations.

To avoid distorted images, you should never stretch or shrink a photo without holding down the shift key. You should also plan if you would do a full spread or individual pages. For best results, the number of pages should be in a multiple of four. You may need to come up with a dummy if necessary. Other things you should pay attention to are text wrap, page numbering, photo captions, color schemes, cropping, and file types.

As for the software, the most accessible one is Microsoft Publisher, which usually comes with the Microsoft Office Pack. It is relatively easy to use, and you would have no problems once you submit the magazine for printing.

Adobe Pagemaker is also a good layout program. It is an object-based program, though your sister could have a hard time preparing the color schemes and making sure that the links to the files in the magazine are complete.

You may need to use Adobe Photoshop or any similar software to design the cover.

There are websites that offer basic tutorials for these programs (among others).

Whichever you choose, I wish you and your sister good luck!


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