The document describes the steps taken to design the front cover of a music magazine in Adobe Photoshop. These steps include: adding a faded background color, designing the title with text effects, importing the main image and adding a strap line, using shapes and text to add buzzwords to attract the audience, creating coverlines with quotes and effects, and adding a shape promoting free items in the magazine along with a barcode containing publication details.

1. Harry-StephenWeedall

2. I started by creating a
background by using the
shaded fill tool.This
allows me to make a
fade between the colour
I have chosen for my
background into white.

3. I designed my title by using the
text tool. I put the text size at
size 150pt and set the style as
‘Engravers MT.’ I added
effects by double clicking the
layer style. I added drop
shadow to bring the text
forward and add an outline. I
also added a red rectangle to
go around the text to make
the title stand out to the
target audience.

4. I inserted my dominant image by
saving the image in my files as
a J.PEG and then importing it a
dragging it over to my work. I
created a strap line my
creating a rectangle and then
putting text in, listing the
different bands which are
contained inside. I created a
shape in the top right and used
buzzwords to attract the
audience to the content of the
magazine. I chose the colour
yellow because many other
music magazines use it as it
goes well with the other
colours used.

5. I created my main coverline and
the rest of my coverlines with
text and rectangles. I moved
the rectangles to the bottom of
my layers so that they were
sent to the back of my
coverlines to make my
coverlines stand out more. On
my main cover line I used a
quote from what Ben had said.
I used effects on this quote like
‘drop shadow’ to bring the
quote forward more.

6. As you can see in the bottom right
of my magazine front cover, I
have created another shape
with the shape tool, to draw
the audiences eyes towards it,
as it is presenting ‘free’ things
in the magazine. This is an
example of a buzzword which
is used commonly on front
cover magazines. My barcode
contains, the price of the
magazine, the date of release
and the issue number of the
magazine. This was all created
with the text tool, pushed the
text layer forward so it is seen
over the barcode, by pulling
the layer further down on the
right of this screenshot.