The font that I used was ethnocentric in size 135 as I feel this should be the most eye catching part of the front cover and therefore needed to be in a large size. The reason I chose the font and colour was because I think it fits in well with the genre of indie rock and also fits in well with the style of the models in the photograph I also made it black because it contrasted with the white background.

The next step to producing my magazine was to add a masthead for this I looked at the sheet of mastheads I had already experimented with and choose my best one I then added this onto Photoshop by adding a text box which I then changed the colour, font of the text.

To crop my image I used the quick selection tool to remove the parts of the background I didn’t want. The reason I did this was because I felt the background didn’t suit the genre of magazine therefore by removing the background I could then chose which colour/ background I wanted. I feel that a plain background would suit my magazine best.

The colour scheme I chose for my cover lines was black, white and red. The main cover line was in red this would attract the reader’s attention therefore I decided to put important other cover lines in this colour to attract the reader. I then put the ‘exclusive’ in black so that it would contrast with the white background.

The next step I added all of my coverlines. I decided to not put a lot of coverlines because I felt it would over shadow the image although I feel I have enough for people to have an insight into the magazine.

Image Manipulation

To make sure that my colour schemed matched I used a tool called the eye dropper tool. This helps to make sure I use the same shade of red on each part and therefore make the colour scheme match.

To get the text behind the image I moved the layer with the image above the layer of the text.

Finally for the last step I added small adjustments to my magazine front cover which I used photo-shop to do. I decided to place a barcode in the bottom left corner to make it look like a realistic magazine and I also decided to add small information such as the price so people would be able to see the price before purchasing.

I then added the issue number and date so people who will buy the magazine will know how recent the information is.