This document describes the layout and design process for creating a magazine front cover in Photoshop. It outlines adding a background, title text with drop shadows, the main image featuring a rock musician to appeal to the genre, additional text blocks with varied styles and effects, and shapes used for advertising and barcodes to mimic a professional magazine cover. The overall goal is to design an A4 sized magazine cover that looks realistic using techniques like overlaying images and text.

1. Photoshop Magazine Front
Cover

2. layout
This is the layout i will be
using for my front cover by
using Photoshop. The setting
is A4 international which gives
the look of a normal
professional magazine. To
improve on this I will add a
background cover.

3. Background
This is now the background for
the front cover of my magazine

4. Title
Once I have got the background colour done, I have then added the
title of my Magazine which matches my Genre of music. To add text
you have to click on the icon labelled ‘T’. Then draw you text box
and add size and colour to the word to get what you want. On my title
I have added drop shadow's to give an effect on my text to give it a
professional look about it.

5. Main Image
For my main image I took a
photograph of Jake banks
wearing rock look clothing. This
is important because I need to
give off a rock appeal for my
magazine so Rock listeners
would be attracted to buy it. I
first have to insert the picture
onto the page so I can crop it
down so it can fit into the page.
On the right is the picture and
the layout of my main image of
were I have positioned it. I
have positioned it in a way that
has used media techniques
such as the image over the top
of the Magazine name.

6. Adding Text
Just like the title, to add text you
just click on the icon ‘T’ to draw a
text box. As you can see from my
magazine on the right I have added
different colours and drop shadows
to give the effects of a professional
magazine. For the quote I have
used a different style of text to
make it stand out more from the
rest of the text. Also at the bottom
of the page I have used a glow
effect on the back of the words to
make them stand out from the Main
image.

7. Adding Shapes
As you can see, my
magazine front cover
has a number of
shapes on there now
for advertising,
making text stand out
and for my barcode.
On professional
magazines they use
these sort of shapes
to get the reader
drawn in to that
article or
advertisement. So
this is a good way of
making mine look like
a professional
magazine.