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  Overall, many revisions were made. The text was justified and columns were made. One of the photos in the article was made the main focus instead of a bunch of smaller ones. Page numbers were also added. As for the table of contents, the original article background was used for the table of contents instead and the article was changed to a plain white background. This was more conventional. The title was stretched across the top, filling the empty spaces. For the cover page, the picture was made bigger and the smaller text was slightly adjusted with the font and positioning.  

The first picture is after revisions were made. I made the photo bigger so that the main focus filled more of the page. After making the photo bigger, then there were fewer empty spaces and it looked much better. I also changed the font and spaced the words out more for the text on the side. The font I chose was sleeker, and I did this because I did not want to take too much attention away from the title. 

The photo on the left was before revisions were made and the right was after. I changed the background of this because the white stripe that cuts right down the middle seems to make everything else to be washed out. It was also breaking up the page a little bit. This new background looks more evenly distributed throughout, which is more appealing to look at. I also stretched the title across the whole top of the page, filling more space. Before this space was not being used for anything and it was empty.  

These revisions were made on Indesign. The top two images are before I made my revisions after experimenting with Indesign in class. The bottom two are after I made my revisions. The text was more spaced and much easier to read. The main photo on the first page was changed to something I thought the readers would be more interested in. This picture was also moved and expanded to fill almost all of the top half of the magazine. Therefore the title "Sailor Spirit" is overlapping this photo. It was strategically placed in the open area of the sky making it easy to read. In the first revision, the text at the bottom of the page was bunched together making it illegible and you are unable to read it. I was able to fix this problem and now all the words are visible.