Double page magazine spread

if you want to take a professional approach to it, you could try it like this.
http://solarisdesigns.net/images/examplemaglay.jpg



You just gotta figure out whats more important, the content, or the image. IMO the conformed text seems a little cheesy, but its your article so your decision.

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Originally Posted by Solaris

if you want to take a professional approach to it, you could try it like this.
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Yeah, good idea man. I'm going to cut down the text a little and add all those little ideas and with the remaining text make another page to get more marks haha cheers =D

and ftw, tahoma sizes 11 and 30 at no antialias


edited mine, tried to pretty it up a bit to give you some ideas for creativity. I thought it would be cool to try and dress the elements using colors from the image to match (via eyedrop). Also spiffed up the quotes. eh? what about grid foreground patterns =D

http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07265/magazineFINALFINALLY.jpg

I think i'm happy with this as a final piece what do you all think? Thanks for the already amazing ideas.

check out my update see if theres anythin ya like


additions:


* Used glow from "eye" as color and glow for divider
* Used dark color scheme from robot to color boxes and background
* highlighted quote text to match text in banner
* added banner (obviously) tried to center the text, miraculously saving an "eye" for focal points sake
* added a grid pattern to the background of the box (for tech flavor?)
* text formatting (centered quotes, indentation, etc)


And also try to put the quote boxes somewhere close to the actual quote, for quick finding. Makes no sense having the quote on the other side opposite the box quoting it.

Yeah, I like the update, there deady. It looks a lot neater and more professional.

well i actually read up on a few magazines and the quotes weren't too close to the actual paragraph where it is written, but if you look the quote works well into the context as the second mentions how many games there will be after i listed them. and the first is in a place where it's describing a few of the games and to be honest i thought it looked nice there.. and let's face it magazines are mainly about aesthetics rather than logic the reading age of so many publications such as these are young and so the writing standard isn't that high and where they're being so spread out i think it balances out the pages being that it's a double page (sorry i'm going to like copy all what i've said in these posts and include them in my self evaluation so i'm sorry i sound a little invasive on your ideas i'm not hahaha they're actually good points :)) also yeah your glow and everything i figured that taking it from the image is a nice idea. the only problem is i used a gradiant to merge into the image without having it blocky because being double page again it creates more of an open feeling and with yours if you see it's blocks so the line is a great way to divide having colour and such but then with the colour merges it into the image, i just used a different way is all but they both work good =D i will change the colour of the boxes though to match the robot and i didn't want to align the quote to the middle i don't know i like it left aligned

well im just here to help, im not taking anything in an "invasive" sort of way. Embellish what you may. Just remember to indent, etc.

btw, glad i could offer some help ;)

haha glad to recieve it, also gave me more to include in my written work could say i had it reviewed by others to gain further knowledge of what my selected audience would like to see so i get more points =D hahahaha cheers also yeah i saw you indented i was like CRAP! where's my tab button! XD!

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Originally Posted by deadloader

http://xs216.xs.to/xs216/07265/magazinepage2.jpg

Like this maybe? (ignore the black line and the gradiant i can remove them)

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i cant read theat part over blue. the original was ok just needed more ork on the ext so it didnt seem just "paste" over the pic/