The document provides screenshots and explanations of the process for creating a magazine front cover in Adobe Photoshop. Over 15 screenshots, the creator added elements like a model photo, masthead, cover lines, plugs and puffs, barcodes, and adjusted colors and fonts. The final cover included all typical magazine elements and filled out the space effectively. An earlier attempt used a simpler blue/black/white scheme that lacked professional quality, while the second attempt took more inspiration from example magazines and showed improved Photoshop skills through additional details.

1. Screen Shots of how I
created my Front Cover of
my Music Magazine

2. 1 Screen Shot
• I made my front cover on Adobe
Photoshop CS6. I started by
making a blue background using
the paint bucket tool.

3. 2 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
picture of my model and it’s a close
up of the face I added a black and
white effect as the background has
colour, if I left the image normal it
would be too many colours. Also I
added different shades of blue
using the sponge tool to see if it
gave a better effect but I didn’t like
it because it looked to messy on the
page for me and you don’t usually
see that type of backgrounds on
magazines.

4. 3 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I got rid of
the blue shaded bits but there is
still some left but you cant see it
as much. Also I added my
masthead which is ‘BASS’ which
is bold and all in capital letters,
the font I used is Gill Sans Ultra
Bold and the colour I used is
white so its stand out from the
dark colours.

5. 4 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
bar code which is one of the
main codes. I placed it in the
bottom right corner because in
most magazine the barcodes are
at the bottom also they can’t be
too big because it would take up
too much space and it wouldn’t
look normal.

6. 5 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
left-hand third ‘Melisa&Chris’ in
Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed
font so it stands out on the page
as it the main head title in the
magazine. Also it white so you
can see it on the black
background, I placed it there as it
didn’t fit anywhere else on the
page.

7. 6 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added
another plug on the left-hand
third which is ‘What is HOT and
NOT!’. It’s a baby pink colour and
Goudita Sans SF font which I
think goes well with the blue and
white colours. The main words
are in capital letter so it catches
peoples eyes, I placed it near the
top to fill out the space on the
magazine.

8. 7 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added another
sentences on the left-hand third
which says ‘Melissa is Back from
Tour’. The writing is white and it’s
the Goudita Sans SF Bold front, it’s
to inform the audience what is
happening in the magazine and it
makes people buy the magazine
because they want to know what
happening to celebrity. I put it in
the middle of other plugs so the
space is filled and there’s barley any
space left but not too much.

9. 8 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot you can see
that I started a new page on
Adobe Photoshop CS6. I left the
page blank so the back ground is
white.

10. 9 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added my
picture which I took. This picture
had a different background so I had
to cut it out by using the quick
selection tool. I left some space at
the top for the masthead so the
picture is near the bottom. It’s a
close up of the face because you
can see the face of the model really
well but you still got space around it
to put all of the other codes and
convections on the magazine.

11. 10 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added my
masthead which is ‘BASS’ in
capital letters, the font is Gill
Sans Ultra Bold and it’s in orange
and it stands out on the white
background also I put it behind
the picture but you can still read
the masthead, I put it there
because on the magazines I
looked at do that quite often.

12. 11 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
cover line at the top of the page.
The text is orange so it stand out
on the white background and the
font of it is Goudita Sans Light SF.
I put it at the top as it fitted
there perfectly and it would fit
any where else on the page.

13. 12 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added all of
the codes and conventions which
is the barcode, date, price and
website which every magazine
usually has most of them. I put
them in the bottom right corner
all together because I thought
that’s where it would fit the most
and barcodes are usually at the
bottom of the page.

14. 13 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
cover lines and puff to boost up
the status. The text which is
“MELISSA & DRAKE…BACK
TOGETHER?” is in white and the
font of it is Goudita Sans Light SF.
I put the cover line as question to
attract the audience because
they would want to know the
answer to the question also it’s
the only text in white so it stands
out from all the rest.

15. 14 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot I added a
puff to boost the status up it’s in
capital letters and the writing is
black and orange and the font of
it is Goudita Sans SF. I put it on
the right hand side in the blank
space which fits perfectly. It
stands out because its short and
quite large.

16. 15 Screen Shot
• On this screen shot you can see I
added Left-side third/ Left-hand
third, Plug and Puff. The font of
writing is the same but different
colours I got important information
to attract potential readers and
some of the text is bold so it stands
out and attracts the readers
attention as it stands out from the
rest and some are even bigger for
example on mine ‘50 TOP HITS’ and
‘MELISSA&DRAKE…’ is enlarged to it
stands out and shows it’s the most
important information in the
magazine.

17. First Attempt of Front Cover
In my first attempt of the front cover I used the ‘VIBE’
magazine as I like the way it sets everything out and
it’s a R&B style which I was doing. I used quite a simply
one. On the first attempt I struggled with using
Photoshop as I didn’t use it before, therefore I had to
experience more and play around with all the tools
and edits to make my own magazine look like the
‘VIBE’ magazine but it didn’t work out. I didn’t like the
way I made it as I couldn’t get similar writing and was
looking to plane for me also I couldn’t edit the image
properly so it looked unprofessional and I couldn’t get
the contrast of the colours on her face. Although I
liked the colour scheme for the front cover which is
blue, black and white maybe if I changed the
background to white and done the writing in black and
blue it might of looked better and tried to use similar
fonts and filled in the blank spaces more to make it
look more interesting. Overall I didn’t like that style so
I changed it as you can see on the next slide.

18. Second Attempt of Front Cover
This is the second attempt of my front cover of my
music magazine. I still used the same magazine to get
my ideas as I have already done research on it so I
know how they present their magazines. I used this
‘VIBE’ magazine front cover because of the use of
unusual colour they used. I really like it because the
orange stands out so it attracts peoples attention
from the bright colour. I used the same colour
scheme which is orange, white and black but I didn’t
use similar font but I like the font I used in mine.
When I was making this front cover was easier as I
already had used Photoshop for my first attempt
which made it easier for me and it is a big change
from my first front cover and you can see that I
improved my work and my Photoshop skills got
better and I focussed on all of the details so that my
magazine looks like a real magazine. Comparing to
my first front cover I used all of the codes and
conventions like the barcode, date, price and website
also I added more text to fill out the blank space.