Creating My College Magazine Cover

To start making the college magazine, I looked at the draft I created to see where I wanted things to go on the cover.

I then took the picture that I wanted on my front cover and edited it to suit what I wanted.

I wanted the background gone so it was just the image of Daisy. I used the background eraser tool on Adobe Photoshop to get rid of the background so it was transparent.

I then made the background of my cover on Publisher blue to give my magazine an eye-catching feature and then added the newly edited photo to the page.



I added a title to my magazine, taking inspiration from Company Magazine's title. I made it black and bold to stand out and put the main word "college" larger then the word "magazine" smaller to make it look more interesting and modern. Having the main image overlapping the title slightly makes the magazine look more authentic.

I added the college logo in the corner to make the magazine look more professional. Again, I made the background transparent which would give the magazine a more professional look.



I thought the masthead looked slightly boring so I added a pattern on to the 'O' to make it look more interesting.

 

 

Because I thought the front still slightly lacked something eye-catching and interesting, I added a boarder, again taking inspiration from Company.
 

 

I then added all the sell lines and made the main sell line bigger because that's the story that's the most important.

 

 

Lastly, I added a barcode so the magazine seems more authentic.

 

 

And this is my finished cover for my college magazine:

 

 





 After analysing the results from the questionnaire, I discovered that it would be females more interested by a college magazine than males so I took this into account when creating the magazine. Having a female cover star will intrigue and inspire more females but the colour scheme that I chose can suit both genders in the chances a male would be interested. I kept the front cover fairly simple with one main image and didn't want to clutter it too much with a lot of sell-lines. I think this picture gives off the positive vibe of a happy student therefore intriguing students to buy it.