The genre for my magazine is rap/grime. I used some of my mates to be put on the front cover because one of them is a grime musician. I wanted to strongly make my front cover fit in with the genre of my magazine so planning was strongly used, such as what the position of the person and where to take the image. I didnt want people to get the wrong idea on what my magazine genre was like. I didnt want some person with a guitar in hand wearing dark clothes on a rap/grime magazine. So i must admit planning was used affectively to make the magazine look as good as it does. I used a mixture of light and dark colours, not just light otherwise it would look like a kid magazine. Not dark colours otherwise it would look like a rock magazine. It took a little while to get used to usin photoshop on the emacs, but after a week i finally got the hand of it. The layout of my magazine is very well. Not to squished in, but not to spaced out with space to waste!