The document describes the steps taken to design a magazine cover in a graphic design software. It involves inserting and editing an image, changing the background color, adding a masthead with effects, inserting cover text and lines using various tools, and placing additional graphic elements like a barcode, puff, and strip at the bottom of the page. The final cover was created using tools to insert, style, and arrange various text and graphic elements on a dark red background following a specific color scheme.

1. First, I inserted my image and resized it and cropped it using the magnetic lasso
tool. I also altered certain aspects of the image such as the saturation to make the
image stand out more against everything else that will be placed on the page.

2. I then changed the background from transparent to a dark red as this is
the colour scheme which I found in my audience research. I used the fill
tool to do this.

3. I then inserted my masthead for my magazine using the type tool and used
the gradient tool to give it the gradient effect and also added some effects
to make the words bold and stand out more.

4. I then inserted my positioning statement under the masthead using the
type tool once again. I also made it into italics.

5. I then inserted the bar code which was a jpeg into the corner. I also used
the type tool to insert the price and date.

6. I then inserted my coverlines and main coverline using the type tool and
also placed some rectangles behind my lettering to make them stand out
from the image and background using the shape tool and then filling them
in with a colour that related to my colour scheme using the fill tool.

7. I then inserted a strip at the bottom of the page using a rectangle tool once
again and the type tool to insert the text overlapping the rectangle.

8. I then inserted a puff in the shape of a circle using the shape tool and filled
it in a pale grey colour using the shape tool and then inserted text to
overlap the shape using the text tool. This is the final step to creating my
final product.