Front Cover Design

For my front cover I copied the magazine XXL, I asked my too friends Anthony and Ali to take on the roles of being Soulja Boy and 50 Cent as you can see above. I used my camera to capure this image and I edited the picture on my laptop to give it a more profesional affect. I aslo drew a Superman symbol on Anthony similaur to where Soulja Boy has one just to give it that little umph, i also used some gold chains and a red flat cap to capture the essence of hip-hop, the image above is not the one i decided to use in the end, but below is the images i took, some edited and some not.

This link shows you my photos for my Front Cover design, http://www.flickr.com/photos/61217461@N07/sets/72157626388361662/
I edited and took all my own images at home.

 As you can see in some images there is a lamp on the right, I used Photoshop to get remove the lamp in the background, making it more proffesional, I did this by using a stamp tool.

I also made sure the background was white by moving up the brightness and by making sure that the wall they were standing in front of was also white. I uploaded my chosen image into Photoshop and selected the pen tool so I could save the image of them into a separate layer which I could use in Indesign. Once I had saved the layer and opened it into Indesign I used the rectangle frame tool and placed the layer within it and positioned it so that there would be enough room for my masthead and headlines.

For my masthead I had to do something small and catchy like XXL, so instead I used the same look but changed the masthead to SWAG, which is a popular word used in America, it means the way you dress and having respect from people which fits perfectly with the genre i choose, hip-hop. I used the font true stories and placed it over a box that I created with the rectangle frame tool which I filled in red similar to XXL.

In the right hand corner of my Front Cover there is a barcode, to get the barcode I croped it off of another magazine and used the rectangle frame tool in Indesign and placed it within the box, I then had to fit the content to frame.

Here is my final Front Cover Desgin ...