The document describes the process of creating a magazine cover in Photoshop. The creator started with a basic photo and edited it in Photoshop by adjusting the brightness and making the models look like silhouettes. Text and graffiti were added for a rough look. A masthead was designed with the magazine title in a font that had an outer glow. Headlines were added in darker colors to draw attention to the masthead. Final details like price, bar code, and article information completed the magazine cover design.

1. Font Cover Progress Martin Watts

2. I started with a basic photo i had already planned out earlier. I knew the rough stances i wanted my models positioned in, and so taking my pictures was easy. Once i had it uploaded to Photoshop, i edited the brightness, to give an almost glare from the corner. Doing this also made my models darker, as if silhouettes. I soon added scribbles and what i tried to make look like graffiti, for a rough, less neat sensible look.

3. Once I had added the graffiti and scribbles, I wanted to continue this scruffy look with my Mast head. I had decided on the title of my magazine “Pro-Pella” translating as “Good Music”. After using the right font, I gave it an outer glow in keeping with the purple at the bottom of the page. I felt this gives an almost border to the cover. Soon I added some headlines and tittles, drawing more onto the conventional attributes of a magazine. Drawing more attention to the Mast head I felt was very important, and so I decided to use more neutral darker colours for the headlines.

4. In my final stages of production, I added the lesser details, and things I felt really created a magazine. Price, bar code, article information and skyline were all added.