Production process of Photoshop magazine front cover

Photoshop Magazine Front Cover

layoutThis is the layout i will be using for my front cover by using Photoshop. The setting is A4 international which gives the look of a normal professional magazine. To improve on this I will add a background cover.

Background This is now the background for the front cover of my magazine. This is a good background cover because it gives a rock feel about it which is what I need since my magazine is a rock genre magazine

Title

Once I have got the background colour done, I have then added the title of my Magazine which matches my Genre of music. To add text you have to click on the icon labelled ‘T’. Then draw you text box and add size and colour to the word to get what you want. On my title I have added drop shadow's to give an effect on my text to give it a professional look about it.

Main Image For my main image I took a photograph of Jake banks wearing rock look clothing. This is important because I need to give off a rock appeal for my magazine so Rock listeners would be attracted to buy it. I first have to insert the picture onto the page so I can crop it down so it can fit into the page. On the right is the picture and the layout of my main image of were I have positioned it. I have positioned it in a way that has used media techniques such as the image over the top of the Magazine name.

Adding TextJust like the title, to add text you just click on the icon ‘T’ to draw a text box. As you can see from my magazine on the right I have added different colours and drop shadows to give the effects of a professional magazine. For the quote I have used a different style of text to make it stand out more from the rest of the text. Also at the bottom of the page I have used a glow effect on the back of the words to make them stand out from the Main image.

Adding ShapesAs you can see, my magazine front cover has a number of shapes on there now for advertising, making text stand out and for my barcode. On professional magazines they use these sort of shapes to get the reader drawn in to that article or advertisement. So this is a good way of making mine look like a professional magazine.