2. The first thing I did when I constructed my
front cover was open up my main image
in Photoshop to get rid of the background. 2
I used the ‘Magnetic Lasso Tool’ to go
around my image and crop out the
background colour, where I was then left
with a plain white background.
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3. Once the image had been edited in
Photoshop I placed it on my front cover in
InDesign alongside my masthead ‘BLAST’
which I resized so it would cover the width
of the top of the page.
I used www.1001fonts.com to create my
magazine name and chose this specific
techno font because I knew it would go
with the theme of house and dance music
because of its unique look and the name
itself tells the readers that my magazine is
about loud, fun music.

4. The main image is wearing white,
black and red so with this I decided
to use a black and red colour
scheme on a white background to
contrast on my entire magazine
construction. The t-shirt he is
wearing represents Japan as it
contains Japanese writing at the
bottom of his shirt and also
includes the colours of the flag,
which also combines with the
colour scheme of the magazine,
but I specifically decided to use
this image to link to my double
page spread as the main story is
about Japan itself.

5. I placed a barcode at the bottom right
corner of the cover, discreetly including
the price of the magazine of £2.50,
alongside the date and website
www.blast-magazine.com. I then changed
the font to ‘Bauhaus 93’ which is one of
the main fonts I used for my magazine.
The other main font I decided to add to my
I then placed my main cover line beside the main
image, in a bold large font to stand out on the page magazine was ‘Haettenschweiler’’.
and capture the readers eye to let them know that
this will be the main story inside the magazine.

6. Right at the top of the I’ve also included a
page, above the freebie which goes down
masthead, I placed a well with all music
lovers, a mix CD with all
cover line ‘The worlds the latest and top tunes
biggest dance pop and to excite and entertain
electro pop magazine’, them. I’ve used it as a
which is typically seen in hook to lure them
most music magazines. I into reading
placed this here my
specifically because it magazine.
advertises and alerts my
readers that my magazine
is popular and successful
and the fact that it varies
on the music genre.

7. Once I added the rest
of the cover lines to
the magazine with
bold big subheads, I
added another picture
to bring more attention
to the audience. I
made sure that all my
cover lines were
neatly spread out
across the page to fill
up any dead space
and not allow my front
cover to look cluttered
up.

8. I finished updating As for the rest of
my magazine with a the cover lines, I
few final, different changed the
touches; I changed subheads to red
these cover lines to with a black
red to bring out the outline, to make
colour and also alert them very visible
my readers of all the and clear to read.
new artists that are
featured inside.