Jarvis Cocker Photoshop Task

I spent an entire two hours getting to grips with Adobe Photoshop today on a Mac. Having only briefly used the program before, this experience was daunting and challenging! At first, I found the task extremely hard! With little experience on a Mac too, I found it very difficult to navigate myself around the system. However, once I followed the workbook (Jarvis Cocker) and listened to my lecturer, I found things became not so difficult. Although the situation still remained stressful due to the 2 hour time limit that we had to complete the task. I also found making a mistake on Photoshop to be very stressful and aggrivating as I struggled to put it right. However, I now feel that I have gained some basic Photoshop knowledge that will help me when I come to create my own product in Photoshop. I have learnt how to zoom an image, add a layer, select different colours and basic editing of an image.
Here is my Jarvis Cocker magazine.

The feedback that I was given was that my chosen image was very successful in setting the tone for my magazine immediately. Also, I had used eye catching colour palettes successfully as they were simple yet successful in catching the reader's attention. All necessary conventions were featured and I used a variety of styles and sizes with these.

However, the areas for improvement that I was given was mainly that the positioning of my main sell line. The sell line over looks an important message in the image and distracts from the main image. Also, I needed to have made my bar code slightly smaller as it was too large. I will use this feedback when creating my final product and try to incorporate the areas of improvement, having improved upon them.