James Gannon created a magazine front cover by placing a photograph in a 6x6 grid in Photoshop for layout. He positioned the subject slightly to the right instead of the center. He then added a title and adjusted the hue and saturation of the photo to make it darker around the edges and more realistic looking. For another cover, he used grid lines in the layout to neatly place the text box and main image, which looked nicer than an unorganized design.

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James Gannon

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For this Front-cover idea I opened up an
Adobe InDesign page where I could get a
6 by 6 grid to copy over to Photoshop. I
then got my A4 photograph and put my
accomplice slightly to the right instead of
in the middle so she fit in a grid. After this
I made up a title that I could use for a
magazine. After I had my title, I played
around with the hue and saturation of the
picture to make the image slightly darker
round the edges and overall more
realistic. I think that this type of layout
looks quite nice compared to the ones
seen below. It was easy to make, and also
easy to read and rather eye catching
because the page is not full of writing or
pictures.

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for this front cover, I used grid lines to
place my text box and main image. The
grid lines kept my work tidy and with
equal space between each text making
it look nicer than if it was just all over
the place.

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