Firstly I had to edit the actual content of the photograph I had chosen to use on my front cover. I use the Photo shop tool "Spot healer" situated on the toolbar on the left of the screen programme. This was very effective as it made the model have more of a smooth complexion.
I also changed the lighting of the image by moving around the line in the graph....
This allowed me to make the overall appearance of the photograph darker creating quite nice effects using shadowing techniques.
I already had a very clear idea of the image of the intended appearance of my masthead from my first attempt at the foundation portfolio. I wanted to keep it simple so it didn't take much emphasis off the background image. I used ........ using the drop down tool "Shadow" and changed the details to
give the title a thick black outline, clearly very bold.
This shows again the initial stages of creating my cover lines, again they simply look quite bland and do not stand out very well. Also the text has both a lower and higher case which could be improved upon by making all the text on the front cover in the upper case. I did further research into the appearance of cover lines and found it was conventional to have text on a front cover in the upper case.
Another highly important feature of a magazine front cover is a teasing content. Here the initial stages of my bottom border are clear, I did experiment with the use of different colours and again the effect of "bevell and emboss". The border seemed to fit better into the colour scheme and stand out more using a simple, solid colour throughout.
IMAGE OF BORDER SHOWING THE TEXT GOING ONTO IT.
This print screen below shows the second stage of my attempt to improve my cover lines. I experimented with different font choices and decided upon a selection of two different types to continuously use for the headings and texts situated below.
To fill in the space at the bottom of the page I included "69 best albums" as an almost summary for the magazine to include in a final article. The text choice of "69" was simply chosen to specifically relate to the rebellious rock genre of the magazine as it boldly insinuates nature of sexual activities.
My first complete draft of the layout of the cover lines on my front cover. I am very happy with the overall appearance of the text, i still need to include an thumbnail image into the top, left corner to relate with the article "Demi Lowe".
It is conventional of a magazine front cover to include a dominant main article therefore I felt it was important to try and include this feature on my magazine. I found it very difficult deciding upon the colour of the quote as it did not stand out against the models clothing. I thought that the use of orange look average, the disappointment was that the colour did not fit into the colour scheme which made it look quite odd.
Next I experimented using the colour white however again created the same issues as it looked like it did not belong on the magazine front cover. The layout of the previous conventions had to be changed to make room for the main article and quote and this feature would not look appropriate anywhere else on the cover. I simply moved the "Demi Lowe" article to the right hand side of the page.
As you can see on this draft I simply made the main article a smaller text to fit onto the page. To ensure the audience would not confuse this with one of the regular cover lines I changed the font and included large quotation marks showing its dominance on the page.
I made other small, conventional improvements to the magazine also, for example including the price and date in the top right corner and also including the bar code at the bottom left. I still need to edit and include the thumbnail image relating to the smaller article.
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