Front Cover

I found it hard to get a suitable picture for the front cover. In the end I came across the Jimmy Hendrix's issue  in NME. Trying to duplicate the pose which Hendrix does was pretty straightforward, but trying to find a similar jacket which re-created the same look was difficult. I had to make do with a red jacket and upped the contrast of the colour.

The editing of the image itself turned out very well indeed.To make the image stand out from the background I created a shadow by changing the contrast to show the main image bursting out! I wanted to have different colour contrasts just like Jimmy's picture, so I made the clothes vibrant colours and skin areas showing as black and white.

I wanted my front cover to be similar so I decided to scan my own hand writing onto the computer and placed it around the central image. This worked well, but to improve it further and to make it busier I should have added more writing around the central image.

Choosing the colours to feature on my front cover and to go with the main image was difficult. I’m still not sure if I have got it perfect still, as I did not want the colour of the writing to distract from the main image.

I tried using marketing techniques used by professional magazines, to entice buyers e.g. using cheap subscriptions in an attempt to hook the readers.
Using key images for the magzine such as a barcode, date, price,  and main image, my front cover started to come together and look like a branded magazine you would see on the magazine stands at Tescos. On refelction,If I could change anything I would have added more writing and maybe changed the colours.