For the masthead, I used a custom font from DaFont.com, a website that provides free fonts to use. However, the font was a image file type and so I had to edit the font in Photoshop.

I used the select tool to select the individual letters and then inversed this, selecting the white background that I wanted to remove. I created a ‘new layer from background’ and pressed delete leaving me with a transparent background to place in InDesign.

However, the font when taken from DaFont was by default black. I wanted to use a bright colour for the masthead to keep consistency throughout the front cover. For this reason, I selected the individual letters again and used the fill tool to make the letters blue.

I continued this process with the rest of the words in the masthead (‘On The Telly’).

After editing the font on Photoshop, I then placed the images in InDesign, placing them accordingly to suit the initial draft for the front cover.

To do this, I used the ‘place’ option to import the images onto the front cover.

Once I had done this, I changed the layer order of the images because I had already added a shape to the front cover and so the text had to be placed in front of it. By default, the text was already placed on top of the shape, however it was important to make sure that the text was ordered the way I had originally intended.

I wanted to make this photo more ‘dull’ to carry the gritty feel of the production to the magazine front cover to add this to one of the

thumbnail images. To do this, I decreased the saturation of the image to make it less colourful.

After decreasing the saturation on the image, I blurred the image using the lens blur tool. I did this because I wanted to make the foreground images, which would be one

of the characters, stand out as a thumbnail image.

I wanted to fit an image into the custom shape I had create for one of the thumbnail images. The shape was made with

the line tool and so I could not fill it with an image.

Therefore, I used the pencil tool to draw this shape so I was able to have a space to paste a Photoshop image in.

Once I had drawn the shape, I copied the image I wanted to place into it from Photoshop, then went back into

InDesign and selected the custom shape I had made with the pencil tool. I then went to edit and selected paste in

place so when the image was pasted, it would fit into the shape.

I had to adjust the image to fit into the shape perfectly. Although, this was easy to do and I managed to make the image fit into the custom shape perfectly.