The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover in Photoshop. The designer started by converting the cover image to black and white to make it stand out, and increased the vibrancy to look glossy like a magazine. They added a bright yellow masthead above the model's forehead to contrast the black and white. Cover lines were added in white with the masthead and lines placed to blend colors and textures. Additional text for date, price, issue number, and bottom bands were placed following magazine design conventions. Band names were listed to indicate the genre and intrigue readers. A red circle with text was added under the masthead to indicate it as the first issue.

1. In my initial photograph shown here, I wanted to make the
image stand out more so by using the black and white option on
Photoshop to change to all the colours to black and white and
then after this I wanted to make the image appear more glossy
like a magazine picture so by enhancing the vibrancy I was able
to achieve this

2. Once I enhance the vibrancy I then went on to adding my masthead,
usually a magazine front cover masthead is behind the models head
but I thought that it looked better over the forehead. As you can see
this looks quite different and stands out more than other magazine
mastheads. Because my cover image was in black and white this
meant that I couldn’t have the masthead in black or white because it
was be to boring so after a while I decided to make the masthead
bright yellow which I’m very pleased with as you can see it contrasts
with the black and white and also yellow has connotations of
happiness which is relevant in my magazine contents.
After this I then started to add cover lines, I wanted the masthead to
still stand out against the texture of Alexa Wood’s scarf and the black
and white so I decided to make them white and this works well I think
because all the colours blend together and contrast with one another.

3. After I made the first few cover lines I began deciding
where to place them on the cover, I decided in the end to
put them on the right hand corner which goes against the
conventions of magazine making but the reason behind this
is that I thought they looked better on the right side against
the black of Alexa Woods hair.
After putting the right side cover lines in place I added a
date and price on the side of ‘HAZE’ this is a convention of
magazine making as the date and price are always
somewhere on the page, I them flipped the date and price
vertically and put it against the masthead because it looked
better that way and was clear enough for the audience to
see clearly.

4. After I was done with cover lines and date/issue I started to put
the main cover line on, I chose to put the text in bold black font
because it stands out more against the texture of the scarf and
is clear enough for the audience to see, underneath the main
cover line is ‘Manchester’s finest’ I chose to write this because
the distribution of my magazine will be in the North of England
and my target audience would like to read articles that involve
people who have become successful who are part of the same
region.
At the bottom of the cover I wanted to put something covering
it, so I decided to put a black bar there and then put white font
in it saying about the Reading and Leeds festival line ups, my
target audience usually go to these festivals because the music
they are into is played there.

5. I put the white font in the bottom black bar. After doing this I
realised that I didn’t have a barcode on the cover, so I imported
an image of one into the page and placed it on the left hand
bottom corner of the page as this is a convention of magazine
making having a barcode somewhere on the corner of a cover, I
also added above the barcode the issue of the magazine which
is another convention of magazines .
Once I was done with this I then began work on the left hand
corner of the cover, sticking with the colour scheme I put the
text in white but I put yellow lines above to pull them apart so
it would be clearer for the audience to see and kept repeating
the same process six times as seen on the next few slides...

8. Once I was finished with the left hand corner I was very
pleased as the colours blend well together and by just
putting the names of bands the audience are able to see
right away what type of genre my magazine is and also by
just putting the names the audience will be intrigued as to
why these bands are in the magazine and will thus buy it
to find out

9. In the final process of the magazine I wanted to make a point
that its the first issue, so I used the rectangle tool on
Photoshop and created a circle just under the masthead and
changed the colour to bight red, this is the only red on the
cover so it stands out and contrasts with the black and white
and yellow.
Then I put text in the circle by using the text tool and put the
text in capitals in bold black font so it stands out in the red
circle as this is the only colour that I found to work and once
this was done my front cover was finally complete.