Main Task - Music Magazine Double Page Spread Second Draft

I made relatively few changes for this draft, but I feel that they definitely improve the quality of the double page spread and were worth doing.
The first change was the re-positioning of the pull-quote so that it was directly within a single column rather than bridging across two. I did this because I thought that in its previous position, although more interesting, the text box mucked up the alignment of the text so that it looked perfectly square on the right hand side but jagged on the left hand side. Moving it solved this, and it also meant that all the text in the columns was moved down slightly, therefore achieving my other objective of making the text closer to Kerry's head. I did in fact add more text as well to make the text get even closer to her, but it ended up detracting from the photo of her face and also was difficult to read as there was only one word a line.
The next thing I changed was the cutting out and text wrapping of Kerry Anne's main photo. It was fairly unnoticeable, hence why I didn't mention it in the post itself, but some of Kerry's arm and front had been made completely white instead of their actual colour when I used the clipping path tool to too great an extent. I rectified that issue in this draft by using different clipping tool settings (previously I used detect edges, this time I used Alpha Channel) and making sure carefully that I had only cut out what needed to be cut out. Also doing this meant that the outer edges of Kerry's body and hair were cut out more smoothly, since it is more difficult in inDesign to manually cut and smooth things than it is in Photoshop.
Other than some very minor text editing, the final change I made was to change the font used in the standfirst and contextual paragraph from Georgia to Book Antiqua. I did this because I wanted to retain the formal impression that Georgia gave off but wanted something a bit less obtrusive and bulky. When one compares them side-by-side the difference can easily be seen, or at least I can easily see it.
Hopefully this is of a high enough standard to be my final draft, but I will need to get opinions from my teacher and classmates before I can decide whether this really is the case.

Main Task - Music Magazine Cover Third Draft

I changed very little from my second draft to my third draft, which should hopefully be an indicator that I have reached my final draft. The first thing I changed was that I shifted the alignment of the "Plus" section of the text to the right, as this is what the covers of music magazines tend to do.
The other thing I did was try to cover up the gold button on Kerry's shoulder, as I was told that it was distracting since it looked rather prominent on the cover. I covered it up by nudging the Leanne Bell album cover upwards, which covered up half of the button. I then used a combination of the patch tool, clone stamp tool and blur tool to remove the rest of the button on Photoshop, and eventually did so to a standard I considered adequate. I also swapped around the positioning of the "The Accelerators" story with the "Leanne Bell" story, so that the album cover would be next to the relevant piece of text.
This is likely to be the final draft of my cover, so long as no one else is able to give me any ideas as to what I can change.

Main Task - Music Magazine Contents Page Second Draft

This is the second draft of my contents page, and it took me a long time to do all the changes. This is primarily because each line of text is in its own text box, and I had to go through and individually re-position each one and move text from one line/text box to another line/text box. You may also notice that all the text has been compressed slightly; this was to make room for the new picture I added. I removed the old man due to criticism from both my peers and myself, and replaced it with a picture relating to one of the main stories. This actually makes the contents page more realistic, since it is more likely that there will be a picture relating to one of the features which the magazine is showing off about rather than depicting one of the regulars at the very bottom of the page.
The image I used was cut out from one of the first photos I took, though I did not post it with the others. That's why I'm posting it here, for your convenience -->
I had to edit the photo quite a lot; I removed Jonny's spots, got rid of his red eyes, lassoed around him before doing the finishing cutting out touches with the eraser and then used the blur tool to smooth out his edges. I put a frame around the cut out Jonny and applied a stroke and drop shadow effect to it. I decided to fill in the frame's background in red, though whether I'm going to keep it like that I'm not sure as it looks quite obtrusive. I finished it up with a lens flare effect and a suitable caption.
Despite definitely making the contents page more interesting the picture forced me to move all the text around which was extremely annoying and time-consuming. I did it though, but I feel that perhaps the original text layout was a little better. There's not really much I can do about this, as if I had kept the original text layout there would have been no room to insert another picture. Also the re-arranging of the text meant that I had to change some of the text slightly to make it shorter and allow it to fit in, such as "Sexii's House" to "Doobey" (fortunately removing the band name "Sexii's House" was no great loss, though unfortunately the replacement name wasn't any better).
The final things I did were to change the page number of the Kerry Anne story and move the caption referencing it up slightly. I made the former of these changes when I realised that a double-page spread would have to start on an even number, and the latter change was made to try and make it look like there was less blank space.
If I do make any further changes to this contents page it will likely only be small things, like the background in the picture of Jonny.