This document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and contents page. The author created draft sketches and templates in Photoshop to plan layouts before building the actual pages in InDesign. InDesign proved more useful than Photoshop for the task as it included tools tailored to organizing text and images across a page. Frames, grids, and layers helped the author strategically position all elements, and test cover designs were refined through techniques like blurring images and experimenting with fonts and backgrounds.

1. Different cover lines
This is my draft of my contents page.
I've included all the basic connotations
of magazine cover in my drawings. The
purpose of my template is to give me a
basic understanding of how I want my
front cover to look like.
Possible bright strap
line
Coloured
background?

2. Gradient
tool was
used to
create the
background
Even though I made a sketch of my template, I wanted to visually see how I can
begin my front cover by making another brief template using adobe Photoshop.
This helped me dramatically because I was able to see were I can literally place
my images and texts on my cover.

3. AFTER
BEFORE
I airbrushed the main image to make the skin complexion appear without blemishes
and to look clearer. I used the blur tool to help me do this. The blur tool softens
hard edges and reduces detail in the image

4. Dafont.com
helped supply me
with the correct
font I needed. This
is because it is
“high school”
related. The
graffiti
The main
image covered
the whole
page. No input
of background
was needed.
Here is the outcome of my cover so far. I’ve included all the expected connotations of
a magazine. I first started by using my draft as a template, this helped a lot in
understanding in how I can mentally see how my magazine would look like. I used
different colours and fonts for the text and I’ve included images that relate to my
magazine.

5. I intend on
separating my
page into two
grids.
Here is my sketch of my
magazine cover. Because I’m
new to using the software
intended to create my contents
page, my template is very
useful in helping me to
understand how I want my
contents to look like.
I’m going to use frames
to help me position my
images.

6. I inputted a background. I liked
the paint splash effect because
it gave the contents page and
urban feel.
I also done
basic
shapes, and
inputted
some of my
images to see
how it will
look like
I started creating my contents page on Adobe Photoshop CS3
this is because it helps me visually see how I’m going to begin
on Adobe InDesign CS3

7. Frames to help
position images
Layer box
helped me
organise
my
designing
I uses InDesign to continue producing my
contents. It was far more useful and productive
than Adobe Photoshop because it included more Grids to position
tools to focus on detail. writing on page

8. I tried to ensure that the
text stayed within the
grid
InDesign helped me
focus on the text
detail. I was able
to create some
effects with the
text and I was
able to position
them properly.