2. We use Photoshop to do the front cover, it was easy to do and easier to learn.
I wanted to make the title a lot
bolder then it was, so I added
effects to it they were stroke, and
bevel & emboss. This made the
title stand out, which meant that
it was going to be easier to read
I chose white as the colour by the audience.
of my title because with
the picture I was using it
would stand out more,
but I wanted it to stand
out more then this.

3. The title was now more unique
and I began to fill in the date for
my magazine, I made it smaller
so that it was still easy to read
but not to big that it was going
to break the codes and
conventions.

4. Not realising that maybe the date was too big and the title should have been stretched to the other end filling the entire top bar.
I filled in the barcode which was too
big for a usual barcode and then the
Positioning statement which isn’t
close enough to the title.
Following on, I then included a few
of my articles and tried to organise
them in a professional manor.

5. Furthermore, I have stretched out my title as
following the codes and conventions do so. I put
the main cover line on the bottom of the page
which links to the picture.
I then began to fill in half the brick work, then I'm
going to paste it again except flip it so that it reflects
the other half.
Then included a picture for the background but
moved it down so the title isn’t so much over the
model. I will then copy and paste certain parts of
the brick work so that it can blend in, using the
rectangular tool to do so.

6. The barcodes are wrong, as they are suppose to have the white bar round it which these ones don’t.
The colours on my articles are beginning
to progress, need to decide what colours
look best and where they look best.
Added extra articles because I need at
least 8 articles for my front cover so I
needed to add an extra one.

7. Moreover, I began to try making
my magazine a little more
professional by setting the artists
in a more clearer way which would
attract the readers. Although the
information below is a bit small I
will need to make it bigger.
I have put the models head above
the writing as most well known
magazines usually do that it so it
makes my magazine more
professional yet still able to read
what the title says, which is very
important.
I have removed my mistake of the
I have left a gap there so I can put my ‘plus’ stuff barcode and replaced it with a
there this allows them to stand out and grabs the more appropriate bar code.
attention of their audience as it will be much easier
to read.

8. Sorted out the bar
and filled in the
‘plus’ information,
Also went through
and changed any
spelling mistakes
that I have made.
I have edited the pictures to be a little
brighter as the pictures before was quite
dark, whereas now the lips and the eyes
stand out so much, also it really helps
that my colour is ‘blue’ for the magazine
and so are her eyes it will really grab the
audience in, as from the questionnaire
that I did it proved that ‘blue’ was the
colour that they associated with indie.
As well as this I put the date and the price
of the magazine in one like against the
barcode, which saved some space and it
improved the look, I thought.

9. Moreover, I anticipated on
whether I should change the
colours around and see what
looked better as what, because I
was unsure on if it suited the
colours that it was originally.

10. In terms of my design I decided to
change my opinion on the colour
again because I thought it was
looking a bit too white for me, so I
thought I would mess around with
the strength of the headlines so that
the artist would stand out, whereas
maybe the information was more
subtle but still able to read clearly.
I moved the web address and
the positioning statement
towards the title a little, as it
looked better and it followed
the codes and conventions,
staying in line with the title.
The positioning statement and
the web address needed to stay
in the inner of ‘ORIGINAL’.

11. Following on I edited the main heading
of ‘Megan’ with a black deep line so that
it made her name stand out and to form
a unique look, because the blue by itself
was not easy to read, from a distant not I moved it towards the centre so that it did not look like
very good, but with the black line it any of the others and in my theory I thought it looked a lot
makes the blue more easy to read. better towards the middle frame, moving the ‘the untold
truth’ closer towards ‘Megan’ so that it does look like they
are together.

12. Edited the line of ‘Megan’ just so that it would look better and it looks stronger by using
“Bevel & Emboss” to do this.

13. This is my final design taken from
Photoshop, then print screened it
and then cropped it so that it was
just the magazine and not the bits
of the computer