The purpose of this assignment was to replicate a two-page magazine using inDesign. Since this was my first time using this program, I wasn't sure what to expect. I looked for magazine pages that were colorful, had many different elements, and looked good. I decided on these pages from Cosmopolitan. I took care to replicate the fonts and images as closely as possible, even finding the same photo as the original for some of them. If I could not find the same photo, I made sure to pick one that matched the colors as closely as possible so the color of the text I overlaid were still easily visible. This project gave me more appreciation for magazine designers because it is definitely very difficult to make a visually pleasing spread.
For these assignments, I was more concerned with experimenting and understanding the syntax and features in Dreamweaver than creating a complete image. My goal was to simply create rectangles and triangles of different sizes. I experimented with writing code and changing variables like the x and y coordinates of each point, the hexadecimal code for each color, and the line width. Ultimately, I learned how to manipulate these to fit the specifications of the assignment and to know what to do for the next assignment.
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