I found the experience mostly easy, as I am quite experienced with Photoshop, but the only problems I did have were where I was expecting a tool or function to be somewhere in the program but it wasn't because the version of Photoshop I'm used to at home has more available. Basically, the main issue was that I found the school's version of Photoshop to be much simpler and basic than the version I have, which makes sense as some people are not experienced at all, but I jumped in at the deep end when I first learnt how to use Photoshop, and this time I found it hard to take that step backwards.
On our magazine we tried to follow the generic conventions to keep it looking as professional as we could. We made it so the masthead covered a small part of the main image as is the norm with many magazines. We also mentioned celebrities in our cover lines, as well as many real life human interest stories as that often appears on front covers. We also kept the colour scheme to three colours (excluding white), which were blue, green and black. The main image also filled up a large portion of the page.
The target audience was school students, and we tried to attract them with cover lines that would make them laugh, cry, be disgusted at, etc. Either way our main focus was to ensnare their interest and make them buy the magazine. Making it a pound will have helped too.
Our beautiful front cover and contents page
(warning: contains facial hair)
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