Latest Draft Of Pages

These are my final versions of my draft. Ive tried to keep the fonts and colours constant throughout as many magazines have. 

 

Actions

To create these 3d effects I added a set of actions to photoshop which allowed me to do this. It looks more professional and helped me see what the product would look like if it were to be put on the shelves. 

DPS Sample

DPS flatplan

Fashion Background Images

 

Contents Inspiration

Ive decided to look at contents pages for inspiration before designing my contents page. I'm looking at contents pages that are aimed at the same audience as mine (students and above) such as More Magazine , Heat and LOOK. Im also going to look at fashion magazines such as VOGUE and ELLE to see what the contents pages have in common or how they differ. 
The first magazine I looked at was VOGUES and I liked how the colour palette has been kept simple by using only 2 colours. Both black and red have been used as the main colours which keeps the contents effective and doesn't confuse the reader . I like how the contents title is smaller than the main VOGUE title which is not something you often see.  Another thing I really like is how the layout is sectioned in to columns.  The columns are all well organised. Something however I don't like is that they have used to many fonts which over powers the contents page. 

what I like about the ELLE magazine contents page is that the images surround the text. I think however theres a lot of colour that could confuse the reader but I like how they have shown images of whats in the magazine with a little page number beside it.