Making fp
- 1. This is the picture I wanted to use for my front cover, except there was a door so I had to use the clone tool on Photoshop to get rid f it and I thought that I was fairly successful, but there is a weird patchy part, which I couldn’t get rid of so I’ll put a flash here. I had to place the picture into InDesign by file -> place -> Click on the image -> drag and drop it where I wanted it to go. I then locked it in place so it wouldn’t move. I then had to select my model in Photoshop and save it so I could place her on top of this.
- 2. This is what it looks like when I placed it over the background. I then locked it in place so it wouldn’t move when I added text. I added the masthead and I placed it over her head instead of under as you couldn’t read it otherwise and I like how you can see her hair underneath. I also added a blue flash to cover up the patch and I like it so far. To add it I had to click on the square tool,c lick where I wanted it and the I dragged the mouse to adjust the size.
- 3. I wasn’t sure how I felt about using blue and blue, so I changed the colour of the masthead and spaced the letters out, but I don’t really like it as it doesn’t stand out from the page and I don’t think that it would stand out against the rest of the magazines on the shelf. I changed the masthead’s colour back to blue as I felt that it worked better and changed the box’s colour to red as that is in my colour scheme and I think that this works better as both of these colours have made the page really bright and eye-catching.
- 4. I made the spaces between the letters smaller by using the space tool as I didn’t think that it looked as professional before. I also added a shadow to the box with the drop shadow tool to make it stand out more and I like the effect. I also added in my cover line, pull quote and teaser and I put it across Kathryn as this is what NME and Blender did and I really liked it. I tilted the text slightly as I liked how NME did this. I also made the pull quote overlap on the coverline and I liked the layered effect. I then out the teaser underneath, but I styled it so the text didn’t go onto arm as you couldn’t read it. I also added a website, issue date and price to the top of the bar code as all magazines have this and it follows conventions. I used the other font that I wanted from my planning as bebas is too big and I like how the font looks. I then added text onto the falsh in alternating text and I like how the colours stand out. And I like how I’ve arranged the text, however there is some blank space so I might put pictures here.