Magazine project production phases magazine cover

Magazine Project

Production PhasesBy

Emily Spencer

Magazine Cover

First of all, I opened my own photo’s. I took a photo of a whole group who look like

they are all gossiping/ talking about something – I wanted to do this to

show a close net college community.

I cut out my image then copied and pasted it into an A4 sized Photoshop

document.

Then, by using the magic wand tool I cut the background out so I just had

the students. I also, at the very edge of the students used a blurred rubber to

soften the edges and make it look more real.

I decided that the image would be best at the bottom – this design was used from

one of my flat plans.

Next, I used the drop shadow tool on my image, I did this because the photo

looked to sharp, by using the drop shadow effect I managed to soften the

image and make it seem more real.

I then inserted my masthead into the Photoshop document, I had to copy

and paste it across because the masthead opened up into a clipboard

image.

Then, I centred it at the top, although I didn’t do any research on mastheads being

placed at the top and the picture at the bottom: when I was creating my flat plans I came up with the idea and decided to try

it.

I thought that the background looked to plain just to be white, so I used the solid colour tool to find a

colour that would look right. I used a fairly pale colour because the

masthead wouldn’t show up and the picture would be hard to see.

Next, I went onto “barcode generator” http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php

I made it my own by using the college magazines name to have under the scanning

lines.

I used print screen to paste it into my Photoshop document. Using the

rectangular marquee tool I cut out the barcode and placed it at the right hand

bottom.

Next, I used my own image to edit in Microsoft office, I used this

programme so I could make the image circular and have a framed border. I

used the tool “metal oval”

I then copied the image over to Photoshop and placed it into the top right hand corner which I planned in

one of my flat plans.

Again, I used the sight “dafont” to create cover story titles. I used the font “rough

typewriter”

Again I print screened into the Photoshop document and used the

rectangular marquee tool to cut out “fashion geek” then used the

magic wand tool to cut around the image so I just had the text.

I then placed the “fashion geek” underneath the picture. I think by

doing this you can see what the cover stories are clearly enough and can

grab the readers attention.

I did exactly the same process for the titles: “the bands rumours finally

revealed”, “ win free tickets to NERO gig” and “students visit fashion week”.

I didn’t put this idea into my flat plan but I researched some more magazine covers

and saw the idea to have a line underneath the masthead. So I used the rectangle tool to create a line as the line tool wasn’t thick

enough.

I then placed it underneath the masthead.