Construction of my music magazine front covers using photoshop

MUSIC MAGAZINE DRAFT 1

To start of my front cover I inserted the image I wanted as my whole background.

I then used the magnetic lasso tool to cut around the girls and delete the background this brings the focus more on the girls poses and body language. I then turned the image black and white to relate to my magazine being about old cover songs, black and white images are seen as 'old'.

To represent bringing the old with the new and bring a nice contrast in my image I made their lips red. I done this my carefully colouring their lips and making the colour opaque so you can see their lips through it.

For my masthead I used a record for the 'o' in 'modern' this relates again to my theme of cover songs, old songs with new artists.

I then went on to add typical elements of a music magazine front cover, the date and a slugline 'bringing the old with the new'

I then inserted text-boxes of coverlines to intrigue my audience to read my magazine with puffs including buzz words such as 'free Ipod' and the price.

Finally I added a bar-code in the bottom right corner as every magazine needs a bar-code.

MUSIC MAGAZINE DRAFT 2

Much like my first draft, I have used an image of the band from my main story to be the whole of the background.

Unlike my first front cover I want to leave this image in colour to be very different so I am able to compare for my final construction.

Because this image I will leave in colour I edited the girls faces and gave them more make-up to draw more attentions to their eye contact. 

For my masthead I wanted again to have originality to make my music magazine recognisable, So for the 'dated' part of my masthead (dated representing the old cover songs my magazine will feature) I spelt it out with the tape from a cassette tape again relating to my magazine 'bringing old with the new' , I explain in more detail how I made the 'dated' in my previous posts.

 Again like my first draft I finished off with cover lines and a bar-code, typical elements of a music magazine.