Whilst improving and developing my music magazine cover, I realized that I was using too much burgundy and found that it clashed a bit. Seen as I my colour scheme is red, black and white, I thought of trying a different colour for the graphic. I changed the graphic to the models lip colour and found that it didn't work or look so well and decided to carry on experimenting. I also got rid of the text that was in the graphic at the top , underneath the announcement of The Arctic Monkeys and moved everything up.
I decided to carry on experimenting with the colour of the graphic as I was not happy with the colour that it originally was. I decided to go with the grey that is on the models shirt. I used the eyedropper tool to copy the colour from the models shirt onto the graphic. Looking at the grey, I can see that it doesn't really work very well with the colour scheme and looks out of place.
I developed my music magazine cover by adding a bar code as well as adding in text around the image. The text looked quite messy, however I was experimenting with the position of the text. I also changed the colour of the graphic again to a lighter shade of burgundy but I still feel as if the colour and the graphic isn't really working so well on my cover.
I got rid of the graphic on my cover as felt that it wasn't working out so well as I expected. I started adding and moving text around on the cover. To the right, I wanted to have all the text that would have pull quotes and to the left, I was going to have the text that doesn't really include any pull quotes. I also added a white box on top of the burgundy graphic to show that the magazine is introducing something new that they have come across. I put down the name of some Indie bands and added a burgundy line underneath to separate the Indie bands.
The white box that has 'introducing' in it, I decided to add some definition to it so that it wouldn't look so bland. I doubled clicked on the layer so that the box with the layering styles would appear. I started to play around with the drop shadow and the inner shadow so that the word had more depth again. I also used a more "elegant" font that is on top of the Indie artist. I was going for a font that is all joined up, and therefore if I come across that font, I will change it. I shortened each burgundy line underneath the Indie bands.The headlines on the magazine are in burgundy to attract the reader.
Looking at the magazine, I felt as if I had to balance the sides out. To balance out the text, I added a plus sign and doubled clicked on the layer to get the layer style. I added a drop shadow and an inner shadow to make the plus sign seem more 3D. The plus sign is so that I write in more Indie bands so that the reader can see what bands will also be featured in the music magazine.
After adding all the text in and positioning it where I want it to be, I added two black lines on either side of the magazine cover so that I could line all the text up so that it is all in line with each other.
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