Stages of front cover

Stage one...


I chose this image because she is smiling and portrays the magazine as friendly and welcoming to a young buyer. I edited this picture as she was sitting on a field before and this would not have fitted in with the type or colours of the front cover. I then opened up a new A4 page and that is where I proceeded to copy the image onto it, where i then added the masthead, which is written in the font type 'Calibri'. I changed the size of the image so that it fitted well onto the page and was big enough to be seen but not too big so that there was no room for the masthead or tag-lines. After I had the image and the masthead situated in the right place I chose a light yellow for the background as it contrasts well with the purple dress and pink lettering of the masthead. Just inbetween her arm and her body, after i had cut it out with the 'lasso tool' there was still a little bit of the field from the field background. Therefore I then used the eraser tool to rub it out and filled it in with the same yellow background.



Stage two...

My original design for the front cover of my magazine was to have the masthead written trough a rainbow and after trying it out I then decided that it did not look right for a music magazine, as I still wanted to include the rainbow within the front cover, I decided to put it behind the main image, therefore it is still there but is not the first thing that the reader/buyer would look at.

Stage three...

I next added on the tag-lines for the magazine. The headline story 'Lottie Piper...' I made sure that i used a bigger boldre font than the rest of the taglines, so that the reader will know that this is going to be the main story within my magazine and the image is of Lottie Piper. As I kept the rainbow within the front cover I decided to use the colours from it to get the colours of the tag-lines. I believe that this then does not make the rainbow look so random and it all contrasts in with each other.


Final stage...

I finally added the barcode, the line at the bottom which tells the reader what other pop bands/singers they can find inside the magazine and then I also added in the date of week that the magzine would be sold and the price.