Magazine cover 4 production process.

Magazine cover 4 production process.Ben Whitehurst

I decided to use this image of Jackalyn west who is a student in my media class and she has a fascination about healthy eating and living. I believed that the image did not need editing as the natural lighting looked good enough on its own.

I decided to use the colours cream and orange as a predominant feature within this magazine cover that I have created as I believed that they are colours that attract to both genders male and female. I created these background colours on two separate layers on separate layers so I could have a darker coloured border. Once I had created the layers I used the shape tool to fit alongside the image I had taken.

I decided to put the barcode and issue date onto this magazine cover next as the are crucial conventions of magazine covers because they let people know how much the magazine is going to cost them. I used a barcode of the internet and I crated the issue date using the text tool.

I next put my cover lines onto the magazine cover, the colour orange was again used within these. The font I used in these cover lines was Niagara Engraved and I used the text tool to create this feature.

Next, I put the masthead on to the magazine cover. The masthead on the Prime magazines is recognisable throughout all of my magazine as I have used the same one on all of them. I used the text tool to create the masthead.

Finally, I put my main cover line onto the magazine cover to act as a hook to lure the audience in to buy the magazine that I have created. This can be seen through the colours brown and white as they stand out on the magazine. I used the shape tool to create these.