The Process

This is the process of which I created my front cover. I first started with the masthead (which was eventually changed and two banners at the top and bottom of the page. Then I added in the barcode which is a convention of all magazines. After this, I put in all the feature stories written in different typographies and colours. Then I placed in the cover story 'THE TRUTH' and my 'free download' additional incentive. The last thing I had to do was copy in my hyper real and thus my front cover was complete.

With the contents page I firstly placed the heading contents down the left side of the page. Then I wrote all the text in one column under clear headings in an attempt to keep the page simple and easy to navigate. After this, I write an editors note within a black textbox and then finished off with pasting in my image into the background behind some of the text. This meant that as some final adjustments I had to change some of the text's colour to white so that it could still be read given the image/background.

Again with my double page spread I first pasted in the two dark red banners at the top and bottom of the page. Next I added in all the text, quotes and notepad in the top right corner with key facts about my artist typed upon it. Finally, I pasted the photos into the appropriate places- I also adjusted the border of my main image and added in the black tape.

When it came to using photoshop I did the exact same thing with all of my photos. I edited out the background using the 'magic wand tool' and carefully blurred the edges using the'blur' tool. Then I simply adjusted the brightness and contrast so that all pictures were on the same number setting and that was all as I wanted to go against the hegmonic values of creating overly hyper real images.