The document discusses designing a magazine cover using band logos. It describes finding a band logo online, using it on the cover because logos catch a reader's eye more than text. It then details removing the white background from the logo text, adding "flash boxes" behind the text for depth, and cutting out part of the cover image to place it over the masthead for visual interest.

1. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 3
ANNALISE TAYLOR

2. I found the font/logo of the band that
I was using on dafont.com I
decided to use their own logo because, as
shown in this rock magazine they use the
bands’ logo, which may stand out to the
audience more than just a list of bands that
the reader will have to take time over and
read before deciding they are interested in
buying the magazine. Where as using the logo
on the front cover, I think is a good idea
because it’s the most important part of the
magazine as it will ultimately decide whether
someone will pick up the magazine and buy it
or not, so the logos here catches your eye
straight away from a distance and you’ll
recognise the bands instantly rather than
having to physically pick up the magazine and
read them all.

3. To use font, after taking a screen shot of the text there is
obviously a white background, in order to remove this and
have purely the text, I used colour range tool , selected
white area and then deleted it

4. This is what the font looked like with no flash box behind hit. It looked
more like a album cover than a cover of a magazine. I added flash boxes
by using the shape tool and putting it under the text layer.

5. I decided on the white flash box, but to add depth to the cover I
changed the blending options, like previously, to white outer glow

6. As I wanted to put the cover
image in front of the mast,
I quickly put in the mast
head, that I had earlier
created so I knew where it
was going to be.
Firstly I duplicated the image.
I then used the quick
selection tool to select the
areas of the image that I
wanted to be moved in front
of the mast head using the
shift and alt keys to add and
remove areas I didn’t need
etc to make as accurate as
possible

7. Cut out cover image
Masthead layer
Cover image
To make it go over the
Once I had ‘cut’ out the image masthead, I selected the layer
that I wanted to go over the that I had just created and put it
mast head, I moved it into place above the masthead layer.
onto of the original image.