comparison between preliminary and main task

For our preliminary task we had to create a front cover for our magazine. i never would have thought that the creation of my magazine that i have done for my final piece would have taken me as long as it did. i used many different pieces of software for my final magazine in comparison to my preliminary such as, photoshop and fireworks. Through doing my research i found that there are many more factors that need to go into a magazine than i would have origionally expected