The document describes the process of editing a magazine cover for a student project. It discusses planning the layout, choosing a main image, editing the image in Photoshop by erasing the background and adding layers. Text elements like the masthead, barcode, and sell lines were then added. The group collaborated on the anchorage text and changed some colors based on feedback. The final cover advertises an interview and pull-out poster from their film and stories from real-life bloggers about anxiety.

1. Editing our ‘Another Day’
Magazine Cover
By Jessie Connell

2. Planning
• After deciding on which magazine format to
use, deciding on our ethos and coming up
with a name, we were able to start planning
our magazine. We drew a diagram of the
general layout that we wanted, and wrote
down ideas for prospective sell lines and
other conventional elements that should
feature on the front cover.

3. Features
• As well as sell lines going down the sides of
the front cover, we also decided that we
wanted to give our readers/audience
something to take away with them. After
brainstorming ideas about possible free pens
or free mini diaries, we eventually decided
on a pull out poster instead. This meant that
we needed to use a ‘Puff’ on our front cover
to advertise that this was included in the
issue.

4. Main Image
• After deciding on how our magazine would look in
terms of conventions, we were ready to choose the
main image for the cover. We had taken a number
of stills for both our poster and magazine on our
filming day, so we had lots to choose from.
• Conventionally, the feature of the main image gives
direct address to the audience by looking straight
at them, so we were able to narrow down our
choices for the main image to just photos where
‘Eve’ is looking directly at the camera. It took us a
while to decide but we finally agreed on one.

5. Original Still

6. Photoshop and Layering
• As I had used Photoshop before when
creating our film poster, I took predominant
control over this task.
• I firstly imported the still into Photoshop, and
immediately began creating new layers in
the order that they would appear, as often
the Mast head is layered over the top of the
image as well as the puff and sell lines.

7. Layers created
in the order
that I wanted
them to appear.

8. Erasing the background
• I then had the task of using the eraser to erase the
back ground of the still so that it was transparent.
This took a very long time as it was such a delicate
procedure; In addition to this, when we had taken
the picture the wind was blowing, making small
individual pieces of ‘Eve’s’ hair blow to one side.
• After continuously attempting to draw around these
pieces of hair, I did take some short cuts and drag
the polygon tool over particularly problematic
areas of fly away hair, although the rest was
painstakingly drawn around.
• After erasing the background from the image, I
placed the image onto a white background, as is
conventional with health magazines.

9. Adding conventional features
• After the background was finally erased, I
was then able to start adding in the different
magazine features to their designated
layers.
• I firstly added the Mast head and Skyline, as
aside from the main image, these are the
most important features of a magazine
cover.

10. Adding the Mast head and
Skyline
• The lesson prior, we as a group had browsed
DaFont.com in search of an appropriate
font to use on our health magazine. We had
chosen one called ‘Dolce Vita,’ and
imported it into our fonts list.
• With this font downloaded onto our fonts list,
I was then able to use the template that we
had drawn out to start creating the Mast
Head and skyline for our magazine.

11. Mast head and Skyline
This is the Mast head and Skyline that I added onto our
magazine cover. The large, bold Mast head ‘INSPIRE’ is
written in our downloaded font ‘Dolce Vita,’ and is
written in black to follow the conventions of our teaser
trailer, where our titles and the title of our film is written in
black. The word ‘health’ is written in blue as this colour is
a key part of our branding, due to Eve’s diary being blue
and featuring on the front cover.

12. Barcode
I was then able to add a
barcode to our magazine
cover. I followed the example of
real media text ‘Women’s
Health’ by placing the barcode
in the bottom left of the
magazine cover. Not all
magazines have a price on the
front, so I did not feel the need
to add this to the cover.
The barcode was placed on a
separate layer, in order for it to
sit over the top of the image of
Eve.

13. Changing the colour of the
Skyline
• However, when showing the rest of my
group the Skyline, they did not like the fact
that ‘health’ was written in blue, and
thought that it should instead be green to
not only show connotations of health, but to
also convey nature which is another key
part of our branding. However, I think that
our magazine might have looked more
effective if our highlight colour had
remained blue.

14. Changing the colour of the
Skyline
This is how the Skyline looked after
changing the word ‘health’ from being
written in blue to being written in green.

15. Adding sell lines and
anchorage text
• From what I had created, our group then began to add the
Anchorage text to the front of the magazine. We wrote the title
of our film ‘Another Day’ on its designated layer, and in the
same font and colour as it appeared in our film in order to keep
our branding constant. We then used our template to add text
around it in highlight colours of black and green to tell the
audience about an interview with the star of the film, Eve.
• After completing this, we then added sell lines around the sides
of our magazine cover, with conventional sell lines from health
magazines such as ways to keep healthy, as well as an issue
related to our film which was a celebrity talking about her own
struggles with anxiety, all of which was written in our
downloaded font, ‘Dolce Vita.’
• After doing this, we then added a web address and social
media links for the magazine just under the mast head.

16. Anchorage
text and sell
lines
Here is our groups
magazine cover after
adding sell lines and
anchorage text. We also
decided to feature
stories from real life
bloggers, as we had
used quotes from real
life anxiety bloggers to
inspire the voiceover for
our teaser trailer.

17. Puff and
changing text
colours
I then used the ‘circle’ tool in
Photoshop to draw our Puff,
before advertising the free pull
out poster featured inside of
the magazine. In addition to
this, I also changed the font
advertising stories from real life
bloggers from white into black,
as it fit with both the colour
scheme of our magazine and
the conventions of our
marketing campaign as a
whole, a lot better.

18. Finished
magazine
cover