Front Cover Evaluation.

I do not think that my front cover is very good at all. Some reasons for this are that i have never used photoshop before, so my skills are very limited when it came to designing the front cover on photoshop and when i designed my front cover i did not have a very creative eye, so i didnt really think about a certain styles that would run through the magazine, i basically just went for random colours and fonts, which looking at my front cover now has in my oppinion just made it look a mess, so i now know that in future i need to really think about the certain style ( colours of font, styles of font etc) that i want to run thorugh my magazine. I think that i could have changed the colours of my font to the three colours featured on the models t-shirt because then itperhaps would have looked a bit better and i would have had some sort of style.

 This is the image that i used for my front cover. I think the good aspect of the image is that the t-shirt that the model is wearing in the picture has the brand name dispalyed but however not very clearly. So i need to change the positioning of the model so i can see the main feature clearly.

The lighting in the picture is not fantastic, it distracts you from the main feature of the image in my oppinion, so i need to work on the postioning of the model in the sense of lighting, i think i should take the picture in a different place, for example in the college tv studio as i took this picture at home.

This is the font that i used and designed on dafont.com. I designed this particular font because i liked how it was very bold and seems to make a statement, which also i think ties in with the fashion theme because the idea of fashion is to make a statement, so i do think that this is one of the aspects of my magazine that actually went well.

Contents Page

This is my finished contents page. I tried to stick with my idea on my flat plans for the contents page but because this is my first time using photoshop, i found it a bit difficult to find the correct tools to use to create the original flat plan image. I have used the chosen background in all honesty because i forgot how to change the background colour, so i was playing around with some of the photoshop tools and found this bubble effect. I do no think that this really makes my contents page look very good but i thought that because my magazine was supposed to be fashion based, i thought it went with the theme because bubble wrap is a material that in some cases is used for outfits.

College Magazine - Front Cover

This is my finished front cover. I have never used photoshop before so i found it quite difficult to design an amazing front cover. I dont think that my front cover looks very good but i tried my best, my photoshop skills are very basic so my front cover is a very basic design.

Masthead Designs

I have designed a variety of fonts on http://www.dafont.com/, i was experimenting with the different types of font to see which would suit my magazine best. I particularly like the Bold designs because i think they are more eye catching rather than normal or itallic designs.

Images that have inspired me.

These images have inspired me because i like the effects such as the black and white but i also like how emotion is portrayed in the poses that the models have used.

Front Covers that have inspired me .

These front covers have inspired me because i like the way that they are set out. I especially like how the the image can overlap the mast head and how the cover lines stand outin the way that they are styled.

Flat Plans for Front Cover and Contents Page