Student success - college magazine

This is the front cover of my college magazine which includes a masthead and appropriate sell line stat are relevant to the subject matter of the magazine.I liked the way that the main image cover the success logo as it is a typical conventions of a magazine to do this and I thought it was an improvement over in my previous work on photoshop which was plain.I attempted to use the lasso and rubber tool to erase the background of the photo and zoomed in so I could be more precise when doing this.I then tried to make the image to scale by using free transform so it did not look stretched or out of proportion. I believe that the sell lines are too small.This is the finished product:

This is my contents page in which I tried to include synergy between it and the cover because it was from the same magazine. I also included a barcode , date , and sell lines.AS this was my an early attempt at using photoshop , I feel that a lot of the colours clashed and made the magazine look less professional.As you can see their are not as many articles included in the contents page as there should be as it should look as though it is filled with stories , whereas there are only six.The fonts could be generally more unique and engaging and the titles of the articles could be bigger.This is the finished product: