Backgrounds

I have been playing around with some backgrounds using the colours I suggested lower down in my research.

This is the background without any adjustments to it. I like the colour as that's the colour I suggested earlier on in my research, however I think its too obvious with the colour contrast which makes it look unprofessional, also the dark colour might dominate the page...

... I then adjusted the brightness and contrast level and this is what it turned out like, this is slightly better than the first one however I am not sure of the colour, the pinkish colour makes it look more of a 'pop' magazine rather than an R'n'B one.

I started to play around with the 'grey' colour for my background. I used word to do this as there are fill affects on there that would be useful. This one has the grey coming rom the bottom which would make the masthead and anything else that is towards the top of the page stand out...

... I then changed it to the opposite way so the grey is coming from the top rather than the bottom, this would make the cover line and anything else at the bottom stand out.