Front Cover

I named my music magazine ‘Surge’ and found a font creator online and used this to create my masthead.

I then used the magic wand tool to delete the white background around the letters and then positioned the masthead in the top middle of the page.

I used the text tool to write the website name for the music magazine: Surgemag.com

I also used the text tool here to create my main cover line: ‘Livv Redmond as you’ve never seen her’ and used a large font to emphasise that this is the main feature in the magazine.

I placed an image of a bar code here at the bottom of the front cover to give the it a better standard of finish.

I inserted a shape and rotated it to create a yellow corner for the price of my magazine as this was a convention in magazines that I had noticed in my research.

Here you can see that I have added additional cover lines using the text tool. I have used a smaller font for these cover lines as this indicates that they are not the main feature. I also wrote some text in a turquoise font as this is part of the running colour scheme throughout my music magazine.

Here I have added a circle and used the text tool to add the price of my magazine.

I used a gradient of black and white colour on the background layer of the front cover to make the text and image sit better on the page.

I decided to change the name of the artist so there is a change with the main cover line.

This text was originally also in turquoise but I changed the colour to white as it was more clear to read in white.

I added a piece of text in this shape to give the magazine a higher level of finish.

I changed the colour of this font to white so it was clearer and so that you can read it more easily.