The document describes the steps taken to create a magazine front cover in detail. It explains how the creator used various design tools to add elements like a masthead, issue date, cover image, pricing, and graphics. Elements were precisely positioned, resized, and styled with different fonts and colors until the creator was satisfied with the final layout and design of the front cover.

1. Front Cover Screenshots
Creation
By Shannon Sloyan

2. I created a page by going to file and then to new.
I then created a white page like this.
I then changed the background to
black using the paint bucket tool.

3. I created my masthead by using the text tool. In
the screenshot to the left is cinema gothic BTN
Inline. The font size is 140. I messed around
changing the fonts to Eras Bold ITC and Bolts SF.
Bolts SF
Eras Bold ITC
I created ‘.com’ with the text
tool. I used the font Eras Bold ITC
and the size is 30.

4. I placed the edited picture of the band ‘Blonette’. I
will make the photo smaller and so it’ll fit the page
nicely and I will change the white to black.

5. I will put this header at the bottom of the
page underneath the photo. I will change
the colour to red using the paint bucket.
I then added a
picture of a
barcode and placed
on the bottom
right hand page.

6. I then added my text that I planned to put
on my front cover. Next I added ‘Exclusive’
and placed it. I then changed the
background to red.
I decided to get rid of
the red box which was
going to be at the
bottom because I then
realise I didn’t have
text to put on it.
I made the
exclusive text
bigger to
attract the
readers.

7. I used the tool cookie cutter to
create the heart shape. I will make
the heart become red using the
paint bucket tool.
I then cropped it.
I dragged it on
the front cover.

8. I will then add another heart shape but
leave it to the colour white and place it
on top of the red heart. I added
‘Blonette’ so that the reader would have
an idea of the two girls are. The font style
is Eras Bold ITC and the size is 30 pt.

9. I then moved the ‘.com’ to on top of
the ‘E’. I also moved the picture up. I
put the text ‘Jan/Feb to next the ‘D’
in Desire as seen in the screenshot
below.

10. I decided to change the
font of my masthead to
Eras Bold ITC because I
referred to what it was
before.

11. I used the cookie
cutter to create
the sticker. I will
use the paint
bucket tool to
make it become
red.
I then
cropped
and
dragged it
onto the
front cover.

12. I added the price
of the magazine
which is £1.

13. In the screenshot on the left, I resized the
image bigger by going to edit and then
transform and clicking scale. And I made it
become bigger. I also moved the text to the
other side of the page and changed the colour
to black. And I moved the sticker to the
opposite side as well.

14. THIS IS MY FRONT COVER