Front Cover (STAGE 3)

From my questionnaire I knew which colours should be used on my front cover. And from my sketches I knew how to lay my magazine name out on the page.
I found it hard to rotate the text to an angle which wasnt cutting too much of the persons head off, or looking like the text was too far down the page.


I then uploaded a barcode, issue number, and date to the bottom left hand side of my magazine, this is a convention of magazines.


I then thought that my front cover looked plain with only one picture on. So I went through all the pictures I had taken and chose two to put at the bottom of the cover, in a small size. As my masthead was tilted across the page I thought that the pictures at the bottom should also be tilted.

I chose two candid images, which I had taken at school.
When I inserted the pictures onto the front cover I found that they blended with my main picture too much, so I used the shape tool and drew too rectangles over the pictures a little larger than the actuall picture. Then on my layers, I dragged the pictures so the appeared over the rectangles. But as the rectangles were bigger they acted like a boarder. I chose to have the sapes black as it matched the masthead.

I then realised that my puff line didnt stand out enough. So like I did with the two pictures at the bottom I drew a rectangle over the puff line, and in my layers I put it behind the text.
The black of the rectangle then looked to dark, so I lowered the opacity of it so that the background of the main picture could still be slighty seen through the shape. I lowered it to 67%.

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