Contents page and double page spread guidelines

Contents page:

• Multiple images
• If just one image per page then do 2 or 3 contents pages
• Reflect your cover stories
• Largest image should be the cover star
• Not all contents is on the contents page
• Approx 60 pages - Weekly 
• Approx 140-180 pages - Monthly
• Divide contents into sections
• Page number - At least page 6 upwards
• Subscription offer
• Letter from the editor
• Magazine branding - Colour and logos

Double page spread:

• A3 Landscape - 300 DPI
• Page numbers
• Usually towards the end - Weekly - 40 upwards, Monthly - 80-90 upwards 
• Big letter at the beginning of the first paragraph - Dropped Cap
• Pull-out quote
• Columns - Photoshop for graphics, headlines and photos, Publisher - To place in the columns
• Columns - 6-12 words

Front Cover Draft

This is my completed front cover for my magazine. It is different to the other front cover and I have made the mast head bigger, I have also made the artists name bigger and put the feature story in capital letters so that I stands out more, I have also slanted the plug slightly and made it more compact and I think it looks much better this way.

Some other things I did  was retouching her face, enhancing her eyes, eyebrows and her lips. I managed to figure out how to do this by researching it on YouTube and the following tutorials are below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmgyRK6H5wk - This is the tutorial I used to touch up her face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-mafxccuY - Even though this was a tutorial for lips, as well as using it for her lips I also used the same method for her eyebrows and eyes and I found it the most effective and best way.
I have used the pucker tool in Photoshop in order to make the nose slightly smaller, and i have also used the bloat tool to make the eyes slightly bigger as well.