This document describes the process of designing a magazine cover. The designer experimented with formatting the title by spacing letters and adding effects like bevel and emboss. Additional text elements like taglines and cover lines were added along with images of bands. The color scheme and model photo were refined. Elements were repositioned and formatting was adjusted to make the text and images more prominent and visually appealing. The final design incorporated a brighter color palette and larger, clearer text and images.

1. This is a screen grab of where I began. This was
my starting pointing before I started
developing my ideas. I chose to do spaces in
between each letter on the title as I wanted it
to be different to other titles. I liked it and
thought it was appropriate for my magazine.

2. To develop it further I went on blending
options to play around with the depth and size
all the different tools and so on.

3. I seen the bevel and emboss tool and started
to use that. I decided to keep it this way as I
like how the title of my magazine looks bold
and pops of the page, I also thought that it
looked very different and original. I then
moved on and added at the top of the page
“Free Wombats poster inside” to start putting
detail onto the magazine.

4. I then added the positioning statement “The
truth about indie” underneath the title. I put
both the “Free Wombats poster inside “and
the positioning statement into black boxes and
changed the font colour to white after
choosing the font . I then put them onto a
strong setting to make them a lot more bold
looking. After that I added a strip line for me to
add text onto it further on.

5. I started adding text onto the strip line of
bands and artists. I made sure that the text
was correctly centred and as you can see in the
screen shot putting the text at the same angle
as the box. I did this to make it look more
effective and attract the audience’s eye

6. Then I started adding my cover-lines on to the
magazine experimenting with them and how I
thought what would be the best way they
should be laid out. As well as that I tried to
make it look more approachable and
interesting by adding underlines and boxes on
some of the cover-lines to make it pop more.

7. Here I started to experiment with the colour
scheme as it was quite dull and boring looking.
Throughout picking plenty of colours it turns
out that the most appealing one was Maroon.
Personally I thought it worked against effect
and was a very attractive colour.

8. I did a photo shoot with a model and got a
wide range of images. I looked through them
and unfortunately they were not useable for
this magazine as most of the camera shots
where to long and far away. They could have
also been mistaken for a fashion shoot. So I
changed the model and went in a different
direction along with the look and so on.

9. After picking a different model I had to move her onto a different
background to make it look more interesting as the background
originally picked was very dull and was not appealing. I did this by
using the eraser, shadow and blur tool.

10. After moving the model of the original
background I placed her onto the magazine on
the background that I put together with the
choice of different colours obviously ones that
went with the colour scheme. I thought that it all
complimented each other very well. On the
other hand I also changed the font colour of the
main cover-line to maroon to match the title, I
thought it looked more appealing with that
colour.

11. Overall I ended up with this product. I removed the ......... and
maximised the title to make it stand out more. I then minimised the
positioning statement, the date and price as the font size was too large
then positioned them in line with the title neatly underneath on either
side not making it look too cramped. I slightly changed my colour
scheme as I used a lighter red than the previous colour choice as it was
quite dull and faded into the background. After re-positioning the cover-
lines to make them look more professional and less messy I maximised
the font size because they were too small. After that I again changed the
colours, Instead of using white against black in the coloured boxes I
changed them to black and yellow. Except the main cover-line that I
changed to all white and re-wrote the text this made it look professional
and overall had a better look. This was a great change to my magazine as
the text is a lot more attractive and eye catching. Looking at the Image
previously, the model sort of faded in with the back ground so I made
her larger and she was now a lot more noticeable to the audience. I the
decided to straighten my strip line to across the bottom as again it
looked quite messy compared to the transaction. To complete my few
changes I added the bar code to the bottom of the magazine.