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.
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