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- 2. The first thingthat I did in the process of creating my front cover was set a background. I didn’t want a very bold background for my cover, so I used the brush tool and grey/black to create more of a shadow for my main image and cover lines, rather than a solid color. I selected the brush tool from the menu on the left side of the screen. I set the brush size to 2840 px – this way the color did not come out too solid and more ‘blurred’, which is the overall effect I hoped for.
- 3. The next thingI did was decide on a suitable image for my front cover and I then used the crop tool from the menu on photoshop to crop the image to fit the page. I ‘freely cropped’ the image shown on the right by clicking and dragging the points outlining the model for my image. Once I had cropped the image properly I pasted it onto my cover and stretched the image to fit the page appropriately, leaving me with the image shown on the left.
- 4. I then designedmy masthead. After thorough research into different magazine mastheads and trying out different fonts I decided on a design that suited the genre of my music magazine; Indie. The name of my magazine is ‘42’ (Inspired by a popular indie club in Manchester, 42nd Street Nightclub.) and the selling line is simply ‘Independent’. The font I used for my masthead is one called ‘HACKED’ which I downloaded and installed from a website called ‘dafont.com’. I set the size of ‘42’ to 300pt so it was large and stood out clearly. My selling line was set to 20pt in size, so it was still clear and easy to read but still allowed the main focus on the actual masthead. I used contrasting colours; red and black. These are 2 of the main colours from my overall colour scheme so it suited very well.
- 5. Once I hadcreated my masthead I began adding coverlines. To do so, I just simply used the text tool and added my cover lines around the page. I used the font Helvetica Nueue Regular and Bold throughout in order to keep it looking organised and professional. I also stuck to the colour scheme using black and white. Each of the cover lines were between 30 and 40 pt in size – This way they stood out clearly, but did not take up too much of the space nor look unorganised. I also included page numbers and a ‘subscription’ message at the top of the page. As you can see I added a flash to the cover as well. In order to do this I created the shape first using the ‘shape’ tool. I sized my shape then formatted it, changing the colour and outline to yellow. I decided to use yellow as it was almost a ‘colour breaker’ and it stood out clearly above all else. Next I added the text to the flash by clicking the text option then clicking on the shape. I inserted my text then altered it; making it bold/italic and changing the font to the typical Helvetica Nueue.
- 6. I then addedthe final compulsory conventions of a magazine; the barcode, price and website. I found a barcode image from Google Images, saved it to my documents then opened it in photoshop. I clicked and dragged the image of the barcode onto the document containing my front cover and then rotated and resized it to fit nicely into the bottom left corner of the magazine. I then added the price and website using the text tool again. Again, the font I used was Helvetica Nueue Regular – to stick to the overall theme of the magazine, keeping it looking organised and professional. I set the size of the font to 24 pt so it wasn’t too big but the reader would be able to see it clearly, if they were looking for it.
- 7. To finish offI altered the magazine slightly. All I did was send the masthead backwards by moving the layer down on the list of layers on photoshop. This sent the masthead behind the main image, making it look more professional and showing use of technology and understanding of photoshop and it’s features. This is my finished product.