Step by Step- Final Cover for School Magazine

First of all, I decided to look at magazine covers that I liked. (See Magazine Covers I like Post)

I found this image and decided to emulate it.

First I took a photograph using a camera and a model. I found photographing quite hard as the lighting was hard to use.If I were to do this again, I would use a more proffesional looking light rig.
Next I cropped the image and used the magic lasoo tool to make a cut out of the figure. I then pasted the image on to a blue background. I chose the colour blue because it suggests sadness and the image above suggests sadness too. Although the image above is mainly black and white, I found it looking slightly cheap therefore I used colours to brighten up the cheap looking magazine.I then placed a filter on the image to make it seem more proffesional looking. Using filters was good because it shows diveristy within my work. I chose a filter which slightly blurred the face. If I hadn't of blurred the face, I would have used the clone tool to make the skin look airbrushed.


Proffesional magazines have clear mastheads which tell you the name of the magazine. In my case, I chose the word STUDENT in order to show it was aimed at Students. I used a font from Dafont.com to create a title. I chose this font in paticular because it is very school like in my opinion and would therefore have connotations of school and studying which would suggest my  target audience is students.I noticed however I noticed that some magazines release special issues and as this was a school magazine I chose to do an issue on bullying.  I used another font from Dafont.com to create the banner running along the bottom of the page.


I used another way of putting in text by just adding it on photoshop. I chose white as the colour and it stands out. I used Dafont.com again to get the logo of a social networking site for my cover. I am not sure if there are copyright laws against using a logo or not.


I then added in a barcode as all magazines have barcodes and it is a convention. All magazines have a date, which is another convention, which I used the text option on photoshop to insert.

Here is my final cover!