Final Front Cover 31st March

This is my final front cover, I am very happy with it. I gave it a professional look but covering the magazine title sightly with the picture. I have put few other freatures other than the main

article in the magazine so it doesn't look too cluttered. The feature ideas cam from other magazines I have read in the past. I have based my front cover on Q magazines May 2008 issue with Madonna on the cover. Similarities I included were the colour scheme, super imposed image over the title, feature in a circle and a band of colour with a feature in it.

Front Cover Major Task - 23rd March

Today I finished my front cover for my magazine, I added a couple more features 'Top 10 Music Chart' to do this I added a new layer and added a circle to write in I then added the text and played around with the colour eventually I chose to have the circle white and the text black I also changed the size and the font to 'Impact', to give it a better effect. I also added the feature 'Rachael Woods Exclusive Interview' to do this I again created another layer and added a box however didnt fill it with a colour so I added text over the main image of Rachael, I made the name the biggest feature on the page as it is the main article in the magazine, I then changed the colours image Rachael red and Woods white to go with the main colour scheme of the magazine, then I continued to add another layer and added a box in the same way adding the text 'Exclusive Interview', I made this text white and smaller than the title of the article. The final feature title I added was the 'New IPod' title, I did the same to add this as I did for the previous article however this one was smaller and all white. I also added the price and date to the front cover to do this I made another layer for each added the text and changed the size, font and colours.

Front Cover Major Task - 22nd March

I continued working on my front cover today, at the weekend I took photograpghs of my friend to use in my major task. I started today by uploading these photos, I chose the head shot for my front cover and so edited it in 'Photoshop', all I had to do was cover up some blemishes using the cover up tool and then I deleted the white background using the cutting tool. I then had to print screen this image into 'Paint' as my computer wouldnt allow me to insert an image from 'Photoshop' into my 'Indesign' document. Once I had done this I cut the part of the image I wanted from the print screen and save this . I then dragged the edited image into my 'Indesign' document as the main focus of the front cover.

I also and some text to my front cover describing one of the contents of the magazine, this was a competition to win tickets to a concert, to do this I had to make a new layer and add a box I then filled this yellow so it stood out from the black background of the front cover, I then added text to this box and changed the font to bold 'Century Gothic'.

Q and Top Of The Pops Covers Analyzied

Front Cover Major Task - 17th March

I started creating my magazine cover today and strated with choosing a suitable font for the title MHQ I went on to the website 'Dafont' to choose it and I decided to use the font '28 Days Later', however the only way to use this fornt is to type into the website what I wanted it to say in my case MHQ and then print screen the preview in to 'paint', once I did this I had to cut out the text and paste it into a new 'panit' document, the font only come in black so I then changed the colour in paint and the background to match that on my 'indesign' document which is black. I then saved it as MHQ in 'My Pictures' and created a box in my 'Indesign' document and dragged the MHQ file into the box, this made the title for my magazine.

Adding the second part of the title was simple I just made a text box under the title that was already there and wrote in in 'Music Head Quarters', I then changed the coulour of the text to white and changed the font to 'Impact'.

Today I also added a bar code to my front cover, to do this I went on to 'Google' and searched in images barcode, I then chose the one I liked and saved it in 'My Pictures' as barcode, once I ahd done this I made a box on my 'Indesign' document and dragged the picture into it, I then edited it to make it the right size.