cover improvements

  

The first image is how the image was taken but i decided that this wouldnt catch the attention of my taregt audience so i decided that it had to be editied. The original photo has a shadow in the background and this wouldnt be seen in a magazine unless the shadow was really dark but this ones just shows that the camera and lighting were set correctly. With the original being in colour it draws the attention to the model and in most cases this would be the benefit but not to me as i have been told that the model looks really young. The second image has been edited and it allows the magazine to be unique as the front covers i have looked at are in colour or black and white so i decided to do a combination of both by doing it all in black and white except from the eyes and lips..

i was told that i needed to fill up some white space that i had at the top right hand side of the cover. i was also told in my rough cut feedback that i needed to introduce the artists and put her name somewhere so i decided to do two improvements at once and do both in this space. by doing this the readers are able to see who will be involved in the magazine.

here i added a skyline, which i didn't have time to do when i handed in my rough cuts. i was told that i needed to include one so that my cover looked professional and formal. the wording that i have used is what i wanted it to say and this is what i had planned for it to be like in my flat plans however i planned for the style to be different but it looks more appropriate like this.

here i was advised to add a 'puff' which meant that i would tell the readers who were involved in my magazine inside.

i was also advised to change the size of my barcode and the reason for this was because the original size that i had it was the actual size of my models head when it was brought up to her height. by making it smaller it meant that i had more space to fill up with sell lines and issue numbers etc.