The document describes the process of creating a magazine cover in screen shots taken every 10 minutes, including editing images, adding design elements like a masthead, barcode, banners, cover lines and flasher, and formatting text with effects, sizing, coloring and borders to make elements stand out against the background. Additional cover lines were added to fill space and improve the look of the bare magazine cover.
1. Production – Screen Shots of the Front Cover
Roughly nearly every 10 minutes I took screen shots of my front cover to show how I created it and
how it was built & progressed
I firstly edited my main image which was also my background, changing things such as the curves,
brightness and contrast
2. I added the masthead, filled it yellow and added a border using the stroke tool. I edited the
masthead also by placing effects on it such as emboss and outerglow to stand out to the reader.
I added a barcode and added my positioning statement
3. I added my banner, date, issue number and website at the top of the page
I wrote all my cover lines on my cover, positioned and edited them. Then added a flasher. Due to the
masthead being yellow, big and bold I also made the main coverline yellow big and bold to make
them resemble eachother.
4. I added 2 extra coverlines because I thought the magazine looked bare and wanted to fill it up more.
I also added a border to all the text to make the words and boxes to stand out more to the reader in
contrast with the background.
