The document describes the steps taken to create a magazine front cover design in detail. It discusses selecting fonts and sizes for the masthead and text, adding graphics like a band photo and shapes, manipulating elements like resizing and recoloring, and rearranging components to refine the layout. The end result is a polished front cover design for a magazine.

1. Front Cover Screenshots
Creation
By Shannon Sloyan

2. I created a page by going to file and then to new.
I then created a white page like this.
I then changed the background to
black using the paint bucket tool.

3. I created my masthead by using the text tool. In
the screenshot to the left is cinema gothic BTN
Inline. The font size is 140. I messed around
changing the fonts to Eras Bold ITC and Bolts SF.
Bolts SF
Eras Bold ITC
I created ‘.com’ with the text
tool. I used the font Eras Bold ITC
and the size is 30.

4. I placed the edited picture of the band ‘Blonette’. I
will make the photo smaller and so it’ll fit the page
nicely and I will change the white to black.

5. I will put this header at the bottom of the
page underneath the photo. I will change
the colour to red using the paint bucket.
I then added a
picture of a
barcode and placed
on the bottom
right hand page.

6. I then added my text that I planned to put
on my front cover. Next I added ‘Exclusive’
and placed it. I then changed the
background to red.
I decided to get rid of
the red box which was
going to be at the
bottom because I then
realise I didn’t have
text to put on it.
I made the
exclusive text
bigger to
attract the
readers.

7. I used the tool cookie cutter to
create the heart shape. I will make
the heart become red using the
paint bucket tool.
I then cropped it.
I dragged it on
the front cover.

8. I will then add another heart shape but
leave it to the colour white and place it
on top of the red heart. I added
‘Blonette’ so that the reader would have
an idea of the two girls are. The font style
is Eras Bold ITC and the size is 30 pt.

9. I then moved the ‘.com’ to on top of
the ‘E’. I also moved the picture up. I
put the text ‘Jan/Feb to next the ‘D’
in Desire as seen in the screenshot
below.

10. I decided to change the
font of my masthead to
Eras Bold ITC because I
referred to what it was
before.

11. I used the cookie
cutter to create
the sticker. I will
use the paint
bucket tool to
make it become
red.
I then
cropped
and
dragged it
onto the
front cover.

12. THIS IS THE FINISHED AND FINAL DRAFT OF
MY FRONT COVER