Putting Together My Feature Spread

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    I decided to use the picture I had edited in one of my earlier posts because I felt like it was perfect in the sense that her smile seemed genuine, unlike some of the other pictures, and her head was tilted in a nice way and her hair was perfectly placed (in some of the other pictures there are rebellious hair strands.) Overall it was a nice picture with a soft, girly touch to it as well as a fun summer look. I knew I wanted the picture to be by itself on one page like I had previously seen in magazines such as Nylon but I also wanted to place a quote of hers in a big font, also by itself. Since I obviously couldn't do that I put the picture and the quote on the same page. This is where I really wanted to show off the bold color scheme that I desperately desired, so I started formatting the background of the picture/quote page.
I used bright blue, red, green, and yellow to format like a rectangle inside a rectangle inside a rectangle. As I kept working on it and placed the picture on top, I realized that I didn't like so may colors at once and decided to do something more simple. I replaced the old background with a white background and put a hot pink border inside of the background. Once I added the picture and formatted the quote everything was looking perfect to me. The quote says "there are no rule to being a woman" which I thought fit perfectly for the magazine.
     Afterwards, I started to write up my article. As I got deeper into the article, I began to run out of space to write and when I stepped back and looked at it, it just looked like a big blob of text that I'm should no one would be thrill to read. For that reason, I split the text up into 2 columns, it fit more text and didn't look as bulky.
     I added a drop cap letter to follow the classic format of most printed articles. I gave the letter an accent color and I was good to go! By that time I thought that maybe my spread was bit too bland so I added the Alice Walker quote in yellow which, to me, was the perfect. That quote added the little pop of yellow that I liked without overwhelming the page. For the page number, I placed a black rectangle behind it so it could pop out. Overall, I am pretty happy with my feature spread, I honestly didn't believe that it would come out as nice as it did but it did!

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