Photoshop Practice And Evaluation

I have created a practice magazine front cover on photoshop. I have done this so I can test my skills on photoshop. I have used Photoshop quite a lot in the past so I did know how to use it when making this practice magazine front cover, however when I have been using Photoshop in the past I haven't made a magazine front cover, so this was good practice for me.

I found that the most useful tools that i used on photoshop was the magic wand tool, the text tool and the rectangle tool. As you can see you looking at my front cove that I have crated I used the rectangle tool to place rectangles behind the text so you can read what they say on top of the main image; so I found having the rectangle tool very helpful. I also found the magic wand tool very helpful when creating this as it helped me remove the majority of the white background of the main image and it helped me remove any shadows that there were on the original image. Obviously having the text tool was very helpful to me as text is one of the main component to the front cover of the magazine.

I think that the front cover that I have created looks a little like the front cover of an issue of NME magazine. I did use NME as an inspiration as I like the layout of their front covers and the simple colour scheme that they use. I like how this practice turned out, however if I were to do it again I would find away to make sure that all of the original background is removed without having to use the eraser, and I would possible add more colour, however I like the simple colour scheme that I have at the minute. Also if I were to re-make this front cover I would possibly include a tagline under the masthead, make the masthead bigger and make the main image a little smaller.

I like the positioning of the main image slightly over the masthead as I think that it makes the magazine look slightly more professionally made. The main image that I have used on this front cover was from the internet, so it had a white background, but when removing the white background, so you could see the masthead, I had some difficulty as not all of it would disappear. So next time when I make the front cover for my magazine I will have to try and find a way to get around this issue or fix it somehow.

Overall I quite like the style and layout of this practice front cover and I would like to make my music magazine front cover something similar to this. I also like the red, white and black colour scheme, so I may incorporate this into my front cover for my music magazine, however I am not 100% sure it fits with my genre.