I used a photo of a different model to the model in my first draft and I paid more attention to the mise-en-scene in the photo and made sure the artist had an edgy hairstyle and her makeup was more striking.

. I then changed the masthead to a font that was more eye catching. I also changed the colour scheme from turquoise to a dark red, I experimented with different colours at first but eventually settled on a dark red. Using this colour scheme I changed the colour of the text and the banner at the top of the page to the dark red colour.

I used Photoshop to edit this image where I altered the brightness and contrast and the green/blue/red levels.

Here, you can see the new main image of the main artist underneath the previous text and layout from my first draft.

I then removed the masthead as I felt the font needed to be more eye catching.

I experimented with different fonts and font colours to try and find the most suitable and fitting for the main image. Here the font is bright purple as I thought this contrasted well with the reds in the main image.

I changed the colour of bar at the top of the page to match with the text to keep the front cover looking consistent.

I chose this font to replace the previous masthead. This font comes across as more edgy and eye catching, which is one of the key features of a magazine as it needs to stand out when it is on the shelf.

I then used the magic wand tool to remove the background behind the font, including the spaces in the letters.

I finally placed the text into the position of the masthead.

I decided to change the purple font on some of the text to red, I felt that this worked better with the front cover than the purple.

I removed the purple bar as I wanted the colour of this to be the same as the text.

To ensure that the masthead stood out, using the shape tool I placed rectangles underneath each of the letters. I decreased the opacity of these shapes so they would be more subtle.

The final change I made was changing the colour of the bar at the top to the same colour as the text. This helps maintain consistency throughout the front cover, which is important as major music magazines have an image that the reader will recognise week in week out.