Making the TV for my double paged spread

Originally when I designed my first double paged spread the top five documentaries section looked boring too big and out of place, when I received peer and teacher feedback on how my double page spread looked, this issue was reverberated and I was encouraged to display this part of my double paged spread differently. I thought about how I could display my idea a bit better in order for them to look more aesthetically appealing so I came up with the idea about displaying the top five documentaries in the shape of a TV.

I began a new document in Photoshop so that I could

start to create the TV shape. The page measurements

were set to A4 and I chose a transparent background

because its what I prefer to work on.

My first step was to create the main outline of the TV using the rounded rectangle tool.

The next thing I wanted to do was to make the top part of the TV to make it more like a

cartoon version of an old TV. I did this by using

the Ellipse tool which created a semi circle.

Because I only wanted half of the semi circle, I

zoomed in a lot and used the rubber tool to

rub out the other half of the semi circle

The next step was to add a smaller rounded rectangle on the inside of the previous rectangle I had already created this created the inside of the screen where my text was going to go. I then decided to add the background, of my double paged spread so that you could see this through the outline of the TV giving me a better idea about what the actual tv would look like on my double paged spread. I also zoomed in and cropped the image so that I had a smaller work space.

I then started to create the lines that are on the side of the TV using the line tool I then duplicate this four times to create the bottom bit of the TV creating the effect shown on the screen shot below.

I then created the buttons for my television. I did this by using the round ellipse tool and then I duplicated the layer four times so that I had four buttons I then moved each duplicated layer to a new position creating the four buttons.

This is my finished result.