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Today in class we had another discussion about our projects. I personally think my magazine is really good. The only thing that is holding me back from having a great magazine is not knowing what I am going to be writing inside of them. Two of the people in my discussion group are doing movies and they are wishing they did a magazine, so I am happy with my choice to do a magazine. Some of the other magazines I saw were basically at the same spot I am in. They all have a basic idea of what their title page is going to look like. They all have most of the pictures that they are going to use, just they haven't placed them on the other pages of the magazine. I have already set up where all my pictures are going to go according to where I am going to place the text. I still have a lot of work to do and plan for. See you in the next blog!😉

Hey blog I will be posting a short blog today because I have a lot going on today. Today I worked on the pictures for the magazine. I got the help of my mom who is experienced in using Photoshop to help my touch up and edit some of the pictures I am going to use. I learned to raise and lower the brightness and opacity of the picture also I adjusted the contrast. These are a few of the techniques I learned to use. See you in the next blog! 😋

Hi blog I am still in Colorado while skiing yesterday I fell and hurt my wrist, neck, and shoulder. Because of this fall I am taking a day off which is today. Since I stayed in my apartment today I decided to get some progress done on my project. Today I was looking how to structure text in a magazine. I was using my moms "HOLA!" magazine. Even tho it is not a travel magazine I am assuming that all magazines have a similar structure on how text is placed. I will be attaching an image on how these magazines are structured so you can see what I looked at.

Hey blog I managed to find some time to work on the magazine. I am researching colors that I will be using within the magazine. I have to show my partners the colors and why we should use them. The colors should be used in every issue that we use in order to let the audience recognize our magazines by seeing our font and colors. Here is a link I found describing the color yellow which is what the main font color of our magazine is going to be. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/21/thompson.php In this article it talks about how yellow can highlight things in a way where it can convey different meanings. These meanings all depend on the reader. Therefore I want to have the color yellow as out font color for the magazine header.

Hey blog I am falling behind on my project. My family decided to take a week trip to Colorado to go skiing. I don't know how much progress will be made through out this week because I will be out most of the day. I'll try and do some work. Right now I am working on the airport Wifi that I gained access too for half an hour. While away I will be documenting some of the stuff I need to do ASAP for the magazine. I'll be putting up reminders so that I can think about the project through our the day. See you in the next blog!

Hey blog today I worked on Canva begging to get my magazine started. I feel like I should have started before now that its coming closer to the end of the year for me and more events keep on coming up. I started by trying to pick all the pictures I'll be using in it. I started placing them on the magazine to see what it would look like and to see which ones I liked. I am currently clueless to what I will be actually writing inside of the magazine. I am going to create a separate google docs and I will jot down random ideas/topics I get that I can include or write about in the magazine.

Hi blog I haven’t uploaded in a few days, today I decided what location I want to use for my magazine issue. I will be using Zermatt, Switzerland as my main location in the magazine. I want to make it about the t he locations you can visit while you are there and also I want to talk about the ski resort that they have in Zermatt which is in the Swiss alps. I have a lot of information to write about and I have several pictures I can use to show off this location. An idea I had was that since I am talking about a ski resort; In a small section on maybe the double page spread I can talk about other ski resorts around the world that attract people from all over the world such as Bariloche in Argentina, Vail and Aspen  in Colorado, Park City in Utah… The list goes on and on with all these ski resorts. I have been using Canva to try and create a front page and I created this. This is only a idea I had while messing with Canva. I like the look of this cover and this is...