Software Testing; Creating A Magazine Article with Pixlr

 This is the second software I will be testing to create my Magazine Article called Pixlr.

I logged on to my account that I have previously made and clicked on the 'Create New' button to get started. 

I then clicked on to the 'Print' option and selected 'A4' as that is the size I want for the magazine article later on. I changed the name of the file to 'Magazine Article' as it will help me in finding the file if I need it later on. I then continued to click on 'Create' to start.

Firstly, I added a white background colour to make it easier when editing the layout by clicking on 'Layout and Template' on the left-hand bar.

I then clicked on 'Add Element / Image' and 'Add Media' to upload images I will use for the layout.

As seen below, I uploaded two images that I have saved from a previous task. I downloaded the images from Pixabay. I then adjusted their sizes and placed them where I think it will look similar to a magazine article in general.

I then decided to change the background colour to a light gray as I thought the white background was too bright.

I then proceeded to click on 'Add Text' and added the text for the layout.

I added the title of the article which was 'Cinematography: The History' with the font 'Juneville' and size of 155. I also added changed the letter spacing to 7 as I thought it would look better.

I continued to add the credited author by writing 'Written By Licca Pragitha' as one does in creating a magazine article. I used the font 'Trebuchet MS' and size of 54. I decided to use a dark gray for the colour to blend it neatly with the background.

I then added the Lorem Ipsum text for the article from the BlindTextGenerator website. I adjusted the size to 52 with the font 'Arial' to create a neat look.

I then also adjusted the image to match with the texts above.

As a small detail, I added writing at the bottom 'Volume I' and 'ACCILITA MAGAZINE | 1'. I use the font 'Trebuchet MS', the size at 54, and the colour dark gray to match with the text above.

This is the final result of a magazine article layout created in Pixlr.

Reflection:

    I like how the final result looks as it quite similarly represents a magazine article. Though Pixlr did not have templates, I like that we can be creative in designing our own layout and exploring our own creativity. However, using Pixlr does waste more time as I will have to decide the whole layout. From this, I will conclude that I will be using Canva for my final project.