College Magazine Step by Step

 Original 

 The first thing I did to my photo was to crop the size so it would fit onto an A4 piece of paper. 

For the first official step of editing my photo I increased the saturation, so the colours in the photo are more vibrant and stand out slightly, but not a huge amount so the photo looks unnatural. 

I then increased the brightness and the contrast of the image so the lighting of the image looks professional. I increased the brightness to 6 and the contrast to 9, so the lighting looks even throughout the image.  

For the third step I increased the amount of highlights in the photo and kept the amount of shadow in the image at 0. 

I then stopped editing the image and started to add the main conventions of a magazine. The first convention I added was the mast head. The font I used was Shree Devanagari Bold in Italic with the text size of 140pt, I used this font as it looks modern and would appeal to college students as they would be used to modern looking items and magazines living in this day and age. 

I then used an inner glow at a 3% distance, and a drop shadow at 3% distance and 33% opacity to bring the writing away from the page slightly.

 I then added wrote the coverline of "Tap in on all of the latest college news". I used the font of Source sans pro light italic in the font size of 24pt. I put the coverline just underneath the title in a smaller font, the coverline gives a little bit of information of what the magazine is about, along with the title. 

I then added a issue number and a date so the consumer would know they were reading the up to date version. I used the font of Source sand pro light italic in the font size of 14pt. 

I then added a coverline to the bottom of the magazine that relates to the picture on the front of the magazine. Using the font size again of 30pt in bold italic with the font Shree Devanagari 714 bold. I wrote this all in capitals so it stands out, and grabs the audiences attention.

I then added another coverline to the magazine with a font of Shree Devanagari 714 bold, I made the title of the coverline large at the font size of 36pt so it grabs the consumer's attention and then the information I made a font size of 18pt as it is less important but, if the headline grabs the audience's attention they may now want to know a small amount of what the headline is actually about.

I then added a third coverline in the font of Shree Devanagari 714 bold, in bold italic in the size of 36pt. This coverline is a puff as it entices the audience in as they will be getting a free gift, or something free like a poster etc. In this puff I said there would be a free amazon voucher which would make the audience more likely to buy the magazine as they get something out of it. 

 I then added one last coverline with a bold title to it and then a smaller description underneath to give a small amount of information about the coverline.   

I then made finishing touches to my magazine to make it look as professional as possible. I moved one cover line over to the right hand side of the magazine in more of a block so the front image would look more framed, and he coverline would be easily recognisable.

This is then my final magazine cover, the main theme of the magazine is photography as it is on the main front cover image and there is a main headline about photography that would be in the magazine, this means that the audience would easily be able to recognise the sub genre of the magazine which is photography. The main  target audience for my magazine would be college students (16-18) of both genders as my main colour scheme is versatile and modern which would appeal to the modern day youths.  


To improve next time, I would need to take an image at a portrait orientation, so when making the magazine front cover I won't have to manipulate the size of the image too much, and make the image look unnatural.