Magazine Frontcover

Magazine Cover 1

Magazine Cover 2 

I created a folder to put all my magazine cover items in such as the images, the masthead etc.. 

this really helped me keep organised and keep everything together, and making it easier to find what i needed to export into Indesign. 

I used the 'ruler tool' to help me keep everything well aligned, so the page did not have loads of different alignments because that would look un-proffesional.

To create the boxes in which some of my cover lines were in I firstly created a rectangle with the 'object tool' and then i coloured it in with the 'swatches box' and added a 'drop shadow', when the box was complete i went to my sidebar and opened the 'object styles box' this allows you to save the colour and drop shadow of the box and then the next time you create a object you can select the style you create before and it puts the style on your object this really helped because i didn't have to waste time on setting the colour and getting the drop shadow the same.

I then imported the image I took, I edited the image in 'photoshop' by using a black and white adjustment layer and tweaking it so I got the best colour possible, then i adjusted the levels of the image to get the correct tone of the skin and make the skin contrast with the black background, then I exported the image into 'InDesign' by going on file and place, then dragged it agross to get the size of the page. 



I created my text first so all I would have to do is put them on at the end so I created them by adding a text layer and opening the 'character' tab and changed the settings so the text looked good, i did this by adjusting the font size and make the text fatter the font I chose for my magazine cover lines was 'Bebas Neue' and 'Times' also I made some words such as 'PLUCKIEST' on a angle so it looks different, and stands out better, this is usually done to the main words of the cover line.