School Prospectus—Final

This is the final front cover and the contents page for the preliminary task of the school prospectus.

Cover

Contents Page

I stuck to the draft for the front cover, using a photo of a student holding books, an image with universal academic connotations. On the front cover, I used the following skills:

• Curve adjustment layers and clipping masks to control the brightness of the lights and shadows of individual images
• The Shape tool to create the gold strip
• The Magic Wand selection tool to select the background of the logo and the student and mask it out in order to create transparency
• A mixture of a layer mask, a clipped Fill adjustment layer and the gradient tool to make the text transition between two shades of gold, giving it more depth

For the contents page, I used columns, using different sizes of font for the heading of each article. I changed the blending mode of the St. Mark's logo to Overlay in order to create a three-dimensional background to add more depth. I also used a clipped Hue and Saturation adjustment layer to control the balance of green and red in the main image.

Evaluation

Some of the things which could have been improved about the preliminary task are:

• How the student's hair isn't masked out perfectly. In order to avoid this in the future, the Refine Edges tool could be used to create a more precise mask.