The document describes a Photoshop exercise where the student was challenged to create the front cover of a magazine. They chose to recreate the cover of Vogue magazine. They gathered an image of Marilyn Monroe and edited it in Photoshop, making her lips red and giving her a cartoon effect. They layered the original and edited images to create a before and after effect. They also added text describing the magazine contents. For their poster, they screenshot the magazine cover and added red and black text above and below to promote the issue's release date.

1. Photoshop Exercise

2. Front Cover
My Photoshop exercise I was challenged to create a
front cover for a magazine of my choice. The
magazine I chose to recreate is the fashion magazine
Vogue, to create the magazine I gathered the Vogue
title and a plain image of Marilyn Monroe off the
internet. In Photoshop I was able to make Marilyn lips
red and give her a cartoon affect by using the tools
provided (the tools are brush tool, rubber and
opacity). I then copied the original image of Marilyn
and put it behind the cartoon version of her, therefore
the dominate image looks like a before and after piece
which I really like and has given me inspiration for my
final image to use for my music magazine. I also added
text and which tells us what will be in this issue of
Vogue things like 20% off River Island and 10 most
popular models. I also included conventions (barcode,
date, number issue) on my magazine so my target
audience can purchase this issue of this magazine.

3. Poster
This is my poster, the aim of the poster job is to promote
this Vogue issue. To create the poster all I done was
screenshot the magazine cover itself and copied to a blank
page in Photoshop. I then added text using the text tool
provided for me in Photoshop and wrote the text below and
above of the magazine cover. I put the date of the magazine
release in red because Marilyn lips are red and the colour
makes the date stand out, by the date standing out more
people will notice it and then buy that issue. The red and
black colour of the text matches the colours of the vogue
issue.
If I had to create my magazine cover again using Photoshop I
would add more colour using the bucket tool and the paint
brush tool. I would add more colour to the background of
the magazine cover. This will then make the magazine stand
out more and make it more noticeable.