For the photo I used auto focus and I leaned that it's easier to use auto because for manual you have to manually adjust the lens to get the focus right for the camera where as for automatic you have to half press the button and wait for it to adjust then press the button. Using portrait is better than landscape for a magazine cover because it captures more of the person in the foreground and not a lot of the background so that the person is whats centred on the magazine cover. Most of the images taken where in focus what could have improved the quality of the image was if we had used a tripod to steady the camera instead of it being hand held also maybe using manual focus as well.
For photoshop I used layers, shapes, transforming and text tools and i didn't think it was hard to use because I have already used them tools before at home and in AS graphics.I would say that the text is controlled with the help of the margins so they are all lined up. I used black, white, red and yellow to stand out from the brick backround and seperate diffrent sections.
