Creating/Designing Product

                          Creating/Designing Product

Throughout the course of creating my magazine cover, something I always bared in mind was that it had to actually look like a magazine cover, not plain text over a normal image and that's  it. Small things like colour, font and placement changes would be necessary.

Firstly the medium close-up I took for my front cover is a good choice, as the background is white and works well with my chosen colour palette, and it's in focus, so fits the criteria given. This photo was set as my photoshop background.

The mast head of this magazine named "WykeInfo" is big and bold, and takes up the majority of the top of the cover. Purple was used as the main colour because it is associated with wyke.

 The red and blue colour scheme for the sidelines was intended to grab the reader's attention effectively, as blue is one of  the easiest colours to see from a distance, and red works very well on magazine covers, as it is strong and easily noticed.

Originally I planned to use yellow on my sidelines as appose to blue as shown here, but it was suggested to me that the yellow made some of the text unclear, and should be changed. After considering this, I noticed that was indeed correct, and changed the colour to blue, which resolved that issue.

It was suggested to me that I should change my cover photo, and I agreed. I plan to do this in a future version.