Creating My Music Magazine

Creating My Music Magazine

To create my front cover I used Photoshop as it has many different effects and many ways to manipulate photos. I firstly decided to use a gothic font called Olde English, but after analysing it, the font did not relate to the genre of the magazine. Therefore I changed the font to a font called Dirty Ego which kept in theme for the genre of the magazine. I then had to decide the colour scheme to use, I decided to use a bright lime green colour as, the font colour is black and the colours contrast with each other which draw attention.

I added special blending effects for the font by adding the outer glow effect. I changed the opacity to 100% to make the effect stand out. I also altered the other presets to get my desired image and effect. I also altered the size of the font, the heading had the biggest font size at 850pt and the rest of the information on the front page was size 160pt. After I had decided the size of my font and layout, it was time to add my main centre image which I had taken at school.

The original picture featured, buildings of which did not fit in the theme of my magazine. Therefore I had to crop the background out. To do this I firstly used the magnetic lasso tool which was very effective as the tool was very precise and was very accurate to the movement of the mouse. I used the tool to remove all of the background; once I had finished cropping the image I entered one of my own into the background which was in relation to the genre of my magazine.

To make my creation easier I used many layers for each individual part therefore the creation was user friendly in the sense I could go back to any part of the magazine and edit any individual part.

Once I had created my magazine front cover I went on to create my contents page which was very easy to make. I used the same font, colours and layout. I also added a green outline on the page to add some more effect and to fill the page up. As well as the contents of what was in the magazine I added 3 other photos at the bottom of the page. I manipulated these images by changing the lighting effects. To do this I went to filter toolbar and selected render which gave me the lighting effect .I wanted to create a 3d effect for each image to make it seem the images are faded into the black background. I also used the blending options and used bevel and emboss tool to create a metal shine effect to add some effect to draw attention.

After creating my contents page I then created my double page spread. The background colour is black to keep it in the colour style as all my other creations used the same colour scheme. I also added two more pictures of my band which I cropped and edited, to make the magazine look professional. I used the same font for the entire interview on the double page spread. The questions are in the same lime green colour as I used into the previous creations. The heading I made used the same Dirty Ego font however I added the blending option to add a white glowed effect. This draws attention and also keeps in the house style of all my other pages.