The document describes the process of designing the front cover of a magazine in Photoshop. The designer first chose an image to use and edited it to fit the layout. They then added the title in orange to contrast the purple color scheme. Next, cover lines were added on the left side in purple font. The main headline was placed above in white font to stand out. Finally, finishing touches like the slogan "Turn it up louder" below the title and the phrase "The new sound of 2013" were added in different fonts and sizes to complete the eye-catching cover design.

1. Screen grabs of my front cover

2. First of all I had to choose the most
appropriate picture for my front cover,
I then used Photoshop the image to
what best suited the layout of the
cover lines. After I imported my image I
then moved on to my title. My colour
scheme was purples because of my
questionnaire results it was one of the
most popular. Therefore for my title I
thought that orange would be a
suitable contrast. I typed out my title
and experimented with different
shades of orange on Photoshop.

3. The title overlapped part of my image so I
had to erase part of it so it didn’t. For this I
used the eraser tool on Photoshop, it gave it
a more professional look.

4. After this I moved onto the
cover lines of my magazine,
because of the shape of the
image I thought they fitted well
on the left side of the cover. I
then chose the colour of font I
would like my cover lines to be
and so experimented with
purples as they went with the
colour scheme of the magazine.

5. After this I moved onto the main headline
of my magazine. I chose a font similar to
the title and made sure it stood out by
going for white. I messed around with
different text boxes so that I could move
the writing closer together and create a
more unique font.

6. My slogan for the magazine was ‘Turn
it up louder’ I placed it just under the
title because I had learnt this from
codes and conventions of other music
magazines. I also used white font for
this so that it would stand out like the
headline. After this I began adding a
few finishing touches such as the
phrase ‘The new sound of 2013’ I
thought this was catchy and was
appropriate. For the text I used a
completely different font so that it
was eye-catching and played around
with the size etc.