Screenshot progression of contents page

shea mcguigan

To achieve my template, firstly I used a line and rotated it to divide the page. I made the right colour by selecting a colour with the palette and added a noise effect to create a ‘sandpaper’ look. To create the blue teared the paper I used a rectangle shape and a custom shape to create the paper part and joined them together, using the ‘eye dropper’ tool create the same colour. To create the left half I chose a lighter cream colour than the right half and used the ‘paint bucket’ tool to apply it. I then used rectangles and scaled them to create the headlines.

I then added the the images and placed them in the places I selected.

I then added added the contents of the magazine. I followed the colour scheme of yellow and blue. To wrap the text round the image at the bottom of the page I used the ‘pen tool’ to mark where I would want the text to stop and selected ‘no fill’ and ‘no stroke’ to make it invisible.

I then added text to this section, again, using the ‘pen tool’ to distinguish where the text would wrap round the image. I typed the text and rotated it using ‘edit’ > ‘transformation’ > ‘rotate’.

To complete the rest of the right-hand third of the contents page, I placed a text box and wrote the necessary text (information on the magazine). To make the background of the text like I have, I again used the pen tool and anchored each point around the text. Instead of giving it no fill, I gave it the same colour as the left side using the ‘eye dropper’ tool and filled it using the ‘paint bucket’ tool.

Finished product