front cover process

For my front cover I imported the masthead I made on illustrator and the coverstar picture I decided to use. I placed the masthead in front of the picture through the use of the layers on photoshop. I used the eraser tool on photoshop to erase part of the masthead so that it looks like the masthead is behind her head. I later added coverlines and I would rasterize the text boxes. I did this so that I could select the text with the selection tool and add a stroke around the text to make it more visible on my front cover. Using the brush tool I selected a brush, that had a nice texture, and with that brush I drew messy strokes to create a background for some of my cover lines to make them stand out. USing the shape tool I created a rectangle shape for the skyline. I imported more pictures onto photoshop to use as examples of the posters in my magazines. Using the transform option I scaled the pictures down and put them at an angle, whilst overlapping them to make them fit and look better. I selected the images and used the stroke option to create a border on the images to make them look more professional. I created lines with the line tool to use them t underline my anchor. I used the shape tool again to create a circle for a puff. I wanted the puff to be more visible and interesting so I added two strokes on it to make it stand out more. I placed each object in the way that I thought looked good for the front cover of my magazine. I could have created files for my layers to make them more organised.

Before I did not add other pictures to my front cover and the font I used for my main cover line was a lot more bulky. I had also placed the masthead in front of the cover star instead of behind them. The photo I used was also a lot smaller and so there was a lot more white space to fill up.

Later on into making my magazine I had added a puff, however the puff looked plain and did not stand out much. I also added a few more cover lines to fill up space and I changed the font I used for the main coverline and straightened it out. I placed the masthead behind the cover star instead but at this point I did not add a shadow to it to make it stand out more. I also made the photo bigger to make it stand out more and take up more space. I had yet to add a barcode or date onto the front cover of my magazine at the time. Overall the front cover looked quite plain until I added a few more details to it.