The document summarizes the production process for the front cover of a magazine. It describes 4 steps: 1) Editing the background photo in Photoshop and choosing fonts from DaFont.com for the title and masthead. 2) Adding shapes for coverlines and continuing to search for fonts. Adjusting lighting levels. 3) Adding the main coverlines including an interview and focusing on style, beauty and high street fashion topics. 4) Adding drawn flowers for detail, removing extra shapes, and including a barcode for conventions.

1. Magazine Cover 1 Production
Process (LO4)
Olivia Lewis-Brown

2. Production of front cover
Step 1
For my first edit I have used adobe
photoshops brightness change tool to
make the background lighter in order to
make the models darker clothes stand out,
this also hides any harsh background
shadows and creates only slight shadows
beneath the models feet. I have then used
the font selection site DaFont to choose a
title font and screenshot the finished
outcome, using the crop and magic wand
tool to cut the text down to size and get rid
of any white background behind the text.
This method I have used for my title as it
is the most important text on the cover
and I will not need to use the same front
again so I saw no reason to download the
font to my computer from the website.
For the masthead font I used a vintage
vogue retro style as this is a classic and
elegant design often used in high fashion
magazines such as vogue and vanity fair.
Step 2
Next I began to add key shapes
for my main cover line interview
and splash competition ad. I
then rendered the image, and
continued adding shapes and
searching text on DaFont.com
as the sell lines will be the main
attraction for this magazine. I
altered lighting again as i feel
the first was too bright so I
brought it down from 8.5 to 7%
which created slightly more
shadow on the models face and
made her skin pigment appear
less washed out by harsh light.

3. Final Image
Text and colour scheme
For my text, especially my
masthead I took inspiration from
Vogue’s classic retro stylistics with
a bold title in a bold contrasting
colour to the background image.
The colour scheme also uses bold
colour choices, however the use
of pink reinforces the stereotypical
connotations of this being a
female orientated magazine
conveying my target audience to
be female. The use of pink also
helps to add colour and make
main coverlines pop against the
white contrasting background.
Differentiating font styles chosen
from DaFont.Com incorperates
different styles giving the cover a
diverse appeal, the use of fading
such as in the coverline Shop
Savvy re inforcing the reitteration
of the topic covered in this article,
the use of language repertition
inspiring interest through a
conventional magazine ad tactic.
The paintbrush effect in the Shop
Savvy font also breaks up the
almost formal style of the
magazine. The hand written style
of other articles such as Simply
gorgeous and Style Secrets, gives
a personal touch to the overall
style of the magazine
Stylistics
For the Stylistics of my magazine I
wanted to keep it simple but
effective, the use of black and pink
helping to give the cover a high
fashion look with relaxed personal
touches such as handwritten fonts
and paintbrush stroke style cover
lines appealing to my target
audience being the general public
consumers. This style contrast was
inspired by such magazines as
Teen Vogue, Vogue and Look
magazine. The contrasting grey
colours of the models clothes keep
with the overall style and magazine
conventions have been kept to with
the use of barcodes, splash ads and
main cover line interviews with a
featured star who appears on the
cover.

4. Cover lines and final details
Step 3
I then began to add my main
cover lines, and my featured
main cover line, the interview
with Lauren, who offers a
celebrity empathetic viewpoint
for high street style choices.
For these cover lines I have
stuck to the main conventions
of a fashion magazine featuring
new style news,addressing
buyers everydays problems
with buying in store and
including main beauty products
in order to cover all beauty
aspects of the fashion world, I
have also made sure to include
high street style so as to appeal
to my main consumers being
the everyday public, and their
available price range on the
high street.
Step 4
For the final touches I then added my own
drawn flowers using copy and paste from my
downloaded images from my pendrive then
using the crop and magic wand tool I cut the
flowers down to the precised shape and re
sized them to fit the cover. Then using the
eraser tool I took away any outstanding
shapes such as stems and white boxes
encasing the images in order to make it
appear as though the model is really holding
and wearing the flowers. This technique is
often used by high fashion magazines such
as vogue and vanity fair in order to give their
images a sense of delicacy and re establish
the artistic references to fashion through
photography. Flowers are also a powerful
symbolic reference to beauty and can add
valuable detail and femininity to any image. I
then also added a barcode to stick with
traditional conventions of a magazine covers
essential selling elements.