Front Cover

This is the picture i have chosen to use of Becki for my front cover. Her personality shows throughout the pose she is striking as it does look very natural. The background i have chosen to take the picture on a plain background as i will be cutting Becki. I made my magazine on the program Photoshop this meant i could edit all my pictures in a professional way. I started by editing the picture of Becki itself. I edited her skin so that it looked perfect, i changed for lips to a darker red to make them stand out.







I then cut the picture out with the 'magnetic laser tool' and copied the picture onto a new sheet. The new sheet i changed the background to grey and put a gradient effect on it which meant that the white would shine through.














I then added the title to the image. I did this by typing in 'musica' into a text box and simply changing the colour. I then again used the gradient effect and making it black to red, the red that i chose matches the red on Becki's lips. This is because i wanted to keep only a small amount of colours on my cover, as it is the same as my mock layout.











I then added text onto the front cover, this was simply done by using the insert text symbol. I used different fonts so that i could make different parts of the cover stand out. I added text which is taken from the interview on 'miss valentine'. I wanted to make the word 'exclusive' stand out, this was so readers will so that and hopefully make them purchase the magazine. I made the text for the word 'exclusive' fade out this is so it did not look to harsh on the dress tht 'miss valentine' is wearing.









I then added more text about 'Pixie Lott' saying that she is British number 1. I added the text with the 'impact' font. I had half the words in black and the rest in red, this is to stick to the theme of the colours.

I then added an additional image of 'Miss Valentine' on her photoshot for her new album. I added the image by simply copying it into photoshop. However the image looked out of place, and that it had simply been shoved there.

Because of the fact the image looked out of place, i added a stroke effect, this meant it had a border around the image. I found that this made the image stand out but not in an 'in your face' way.

This is my final front cover.