Making the Front Cover of School Magazine

 

How I made the Front cover of the School Magazine

 

This is when I went on to Photoshop and then had to remove some blemishes from the face of my model. Added to this at this point I also cropped the photo as the width of the image was too large for a magazine and therefore by cropping it I fixed this problem.

 

After I got further into my front cover, I then had to find a barcode in the internet that I could use. Once I found one that I felt would fit on the school magazine I right clicked on the image and then chose the option “save picture as.” This would then allow me to import the photo onto the front cover.

At first I made some boxes and then chose a colour at random so that I knew where the boxes ended. The way in which I made the boxes was the select the rectangle tool as shown in the print screen. Once I had selected this I was then able to click and drag so that the box was the right size. Also shown on this print screen is the layers, as I needed to create a new layer in order to make sure that the banner “Wilmington’s Winners” was at the front and therefore visible. The way in which you create new layer was to select the first option along the bottom of the layer box. However i had to move the second layer down underneath layer one so that it was on top.



 

After I created the box at the bottom of the front cover I chose a colour to fill the box. I also had to place a barcode so that my school magazine looks like a real one and therefore I found the image (as shown above). After I had the image saved on my area I went to “file” and then down to “place” so that afterwards I could just click here I wanted it and then the image will go into that position.

 

After selecting “place” this pop up box will come up. It is at this point that you have to find the image that you had previously saved in your area and then press open.

 

This is after I have placed it. It is still possible for you to move the image after you have placed it so that it is in the exact position that you want the image to be in.

 

If there is a block area that you want to fill it is possible for you to do this. The way in which this is done is to click on the colour command at the bottom of the tool bar on the left hand side. To then choose a colour you have to double click for the pop up box to come up, as shown in the print screen.

It is also possible for you to change the colour of the text in a similar way, by using the same command. If you wanted to have a different outline of the text to the fill colour then you have to click on the box underneath the colour fill icon. It is shown in this print screen with a red line going diagonal across the box.



 

The technique stated above is shown in this print screen with the fill colour being maroon and then the outline of the text being black. This will enable the text to stand out more on a more prominent background.

 

This is my finished school magazine and as you can see there are several titles of other articles, however not so many that your distraction is lost from the subject of the picture.