The student created a magazine cover and contents page in Photoshop using various design elements like fonts, images, shapes and colors to establish a consistent house style between the two pages. For the cover, a masthead was made along with cover lines, a barcode, headings and graphics. Colors and textures were adjusted to match. The contents page also featured a matching gradient background, date, magazine name and article listings to maintain the style set by the cover.

1. Skills Development Journal
College Magazine

2. I created a simple mast
head with a simple font
from ‘da font’. I then
created a Sun with some
shapes on Photoshop to
form something which
makes it easier to make
put what the magazine is
when it is on a shelf.

3. I then added cover line
and under title to the
mast head so you can
see what the magazine is
and the main idea of this
issue of the magazine.

4. I then took a barcode
off the internet and
added text to show the
issue number and
price. This makes it
look more realistic and
more suitable for a
magazine cover.

5. I then added some
background lines for
use of a headline
which will stand out
to the reader.
However I changed
this later so that
there straight rather
than curved and
slightly translucent.

6. I have changed the
mast head so that the
colour is suitable to
the back ground
image and matches
the blue and cold
idea of colour. I used
a gradient and
contour to make it
look more realistic
and fit to the
magazine.

7. To fit the rest of the
text to the style of
the magazine I
changed it to white
using ‘colourise’ to
make them white.
This includes the
barcode, ‘best of
British’ and ‘College
Magazine’

8. I then added a ‘Real
Life’ Heading to
create interest and it
relates to the
background cover. I
used Ariel text and
created a
background with
shapes and made it
slightly transparent.

9. Finally I added a
shape and text to
show a ‘WIN!!’
heading which would
interest the reader
and suits the
magazine style.
This is my overall
front cover.

10. I made a title for my
contents page by
using the same font
as the front cover. I
then created a blue
gradient like the front
cover so it is
following the same
house style and is
obvious it’s part of
the same magazine.

11. With the
background I took
an image for the
background of the
contents page and
made it opaque so
you can see the text
on top but makes it
more interesting
than having a white
background.

12. I put a date, name
of the magazine
and page number
at the bottom of
the page which
helps to hold a
house style. Also I
carried on the
blue with the
contents page
which fits to the
front cover.
I then created a
subscribe box with
word font’s from
‘da font’ so you
could subscribe to
the magazine and
make it more
realistic.

13. I then added the
titles of the
articles with
‘journal’ font
from ‘da font’ and
information in an
Ariel as it’s easier
to read.

14. I then added an
image of my front
cover onto the
contents page so
you can relate to
what's on the
front. To make it
look more
realistic I added a
drop shadow
which makes it
look higher and
away from the
page.

15. This is my final
contents page
which is similar in
colour and style to
the front cover,
therefore
maintaining a
house style.