First Practice Magazine Cover

First I started by finishing the design of my masthead. Using the font I had decided to use, Xenophone. I then increased the stroke weight to 8 point to give the spikes on the letters. I then put in a couple of triangles with the South Downs colours of green and blue. Then I went about making my image for the front cover. I decided on an image that was a medium close up but had a lot of background that I did not want. To get rid of this unnecessary background I put the image into photoshop and used the lasso tool to cut around the part of the image that I wanted. After this I had realised that I had left a few bumps of the background on the new image. To remove these I had to use the eraser tool, going round the edge of the image again to make it exactly how I wanted it. I then wanted to create a new background for my new image. I also created this in photoshop. To do this I used the gradient tool and experimented with different colours until I settled on the change from a red to a dark blue. I then dragged my image onto the background then placed it into my InDesign document. Using the white arrow tool I then manipulated the image to make it unusual and not just a plain square.