Creating My Final Front Cover and Double Page Spread

For the text on my front cover I decided to stick to a two colour scheme of white and silver. To create an almost liquid silver metallic effect on the text I used the FX to manipulate the contours

colours and highlights of the text until I was happy with the final look.

Here is where I can choose what to apply and change about the look of the text. I can be very in depth and precise about how much contour, bevel, shine etc. is shown on my text by using the sliding scales, this also helped me by letting me see and use every single option and decide which looks best for my magazine.

For the title of my magazine, whilst researching different types of magazines I saw that they make the focus of the front cover, the image and people on there, by cutting around the title to make room for the image. For my front cover I decided to use a found image of the avengers and manipulated it to fit my magazine. I cut around the text to make room for The Hulk, and to make the image stand out and create an almost 3d effect by the characters being in front of the text whilst the rest is behind the text.

I found this image here:

For my double page spread I used the same effects on the text as on the main front cover.

I have 6 columns spaced out evenly to create a professional looking magazine article. Using a clear and classic font I have tried to make my article look high standard and fit for a high end magazine. The background picture I have taken myself of multiple Marvel books and magazines to show the ‘marvel takeover’ as it is a very busy background I used the shape tool to create a white box behind the text in order for it to be easier to read and also stand out more as the main focus of the page.