Beginning to draft my magazine front covers

I have started to design and make the front cover of my music magazine, the model is my friend Sophie who is wearing a navy dress with horses on it with a denim jacket and her hair up. My music magazine is going to be called ‘ego’ which will appeal to the younger audience. Whilst editing my magazine I will include my headline, strap lines, banner, puff, cover lines and my masthead (which is already on the page) and then include the barcode, price and issue number (also the date). The designing process can be long as I need to look at a variation of different fonts and sizes that can change how things look on the page and how well they stand out with other pieces of information. The pictures that I have taken for my magazine are clear and are ones that I am able to edit to put on the front cover of my magazine as well as use in the contents page and double page spread.

To design and edit my magazine I am using fireworks which allows me to deal with pictures, text and other smaller details so that I am able to create my magazine exactly how I want it. I can use the different features to change how well something stands out on a page aswell as change the sizes of the writing and colours. Aswell as all this I can rub things out and change the image if I decide that I want to change things to make them different.