My completed design of my magazine cover and contents page can be seen above. For my cover, i had decided to use bold colours as well as eye catching strap lines which would engage the reader into purchasing the magazine. I had gone for a retro design and had tried to show my photoshop skills in the actual design - As after all, it is a magazine designed to help new photoshop users.
I had manipulated the image of the girl on the cover to emphasise the retro theme and had chose an image that i felt that, when enlarged, would be the main focal point of the magazine.
I had tried to ensure that there was consistency throughout the cover and contents by using the same font, font style and colours. For the style of the cover, i had gotten my inspiration from pop art and 90s magazines. For the contents page, i wanted it to be simple but yet elegant and not too over powering with colour.
As you can tell from the title, my magazine was aimed at Photoshop Beginners. My magazine appeals to mainly students but if it was to be published in a public outlet, then it would also appeal to older age groups. I had decided to make my magazine a free edition as, i felt that it would allow readers to get a feel of what each edition contained and, if my magazine was to be published publicly with it receiving positive feedback, then i would possibly, with later editions, charge a reasonable price of £2.00-£2.50 per issue. On the cover, i ensured that i used strap lines that related directly to the reader and included a competition to attract more readers.
Throughout the whole development of designing my cover and contents page, i had improved on my skills of using photoshop and became more comfortable with using tools such as the 'magic wand' I had learnt about the style of different fonts and how different fonts appealed to different readers. E.g - Fancy fonts appealed more to girls than Boys. That is why i ensured that i used 3 different types of fonts that appealed to both genders. I had used a digital camera to take my images and applied different camera shots in order to take good quality pictures.
If i was to advertise my magzine publically, then i believe that the best place for my product to be distributed would be in a newsagents or supermarket as i believe that it would be easily noticed by the large number and also variety of people who shop there.
Overall, i believe that i have produced a good design but could have made a few improvements. On the contents page, there is a blank space which is an eye sore to the reader. On the cover page, the image looks a bit stretched so if i were to re produce my design, i would change the size ofv the image.
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