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I edited my magazine cover by changing the text. All of text is changed to impact. I kept the colours black white and red but within the text box I changed the colours for example with the text Is R&B Dead? The Is and Dead is white and R&B is red.





I also changed the Top 100 R&B superstars of all time to Top 100 R&B superstars, The top 100 R&B is in black and superstars is in red, is still in the same place as before.

The text of a couple names of RnB superstars that are mentioned “Aaliyah, Beyonce, Trey Songz, Tyrese, New Edition and many more” in black, has been put lower with “Trey Songz, Monica, Tyrese and Beyonce” Trey Songz written in black Monica and Beyonce in Red and Tyrese is in white.


The text Beyonces Top 10 look for summer is still in white but it is moved more to right and there is a red silhouette on top of the text.

Half Term

I have been working on my blog improving, but adding more detail, sadly I do not have In design at home so I was not able to improve on my magazine but I still have had thoughts. Next week I hope to have finished my blog and to get started on my main feature.

Creating Text

Looking at my magazine I could see I only had my central image and title. I created some text boxes saving two each on the same layer. On the top left hand side underneath the title, but quite close to the central image, the text says “100 top RnB superstars of all times” underneath that in smaller text there are a couple names of RnB superstars that are mentioned “Aaliyah, Beyonce, Trey Songz, Tyrese, New Edition and many more”. On the top right hand side underneath the title and next to the central image I used the shape tool and created a circle and pasted an image of a CD and inside in red font I wrote Free CD around in a circular size on the inside. This is to attract people, because they love free things.


Still on the right hand side but lower next to his arm I created a text box the text says “Is RnB Dead?” in white font Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold. Also on the left hand side lower down to about where his arm is created another text box saying “Beyonces top 10 looks for summer” in Rockwell Condensed and white font.

I looked at my magazine and thought it seemed a bit plain so I decided to create text that is near the bottom of the magazine but it looks like a banner. I made two text boxes and typed in both of them “Asher’s new album release” and under still in the text both I wrote “Read more about” and I pulled them together. I also created a transparent affect; the text box was red while the writing is quite see through this is to go with the colour scheme, at the bottom right hand side of the transparent affect i placed a bar code on,this is so my product uses the conventions of other media products.



I realised my front cover consisted of the colours red, black and white so I decided to colour my title in white and red to go with the scheme. The “Dyam” is red and the “Fool” is white. By next week I would like to complete my magazine to the best of my ability.

New Pictures For My Front Cover

I took pictures for my front cover in Mr Jarrett office. I used my friend Asher. I took quite a lot of pictures that consisted of close up and mid shots, some picture was with him posing with a microphone while others wasn’t wearing sun glasses.I used a cannon 50D camera, and made sure Asher was closely lit from left to right in the small studio.



I took about 25 shots and used the image i liked the best for the front cover, which was a mid shot picture with my Asher posing with their two hands together right in front of the camera. As soon as I got my central I edited it on Photoshop by colouring in the glasses. Then i edited my image on Photoshop by using the magic wand tool to seperate Asher from the background. I then saved it on a PNG file(portable network graphics). PNG's are so important, because they are the only image format that supports transparency. Transparency is so important because it allows me to place objects behind my main subject on my magazine page, for example placing Ashers head infront of the title.

I put it on in design and created my title using Adobe illustrator, I was not sure what colour to use for my title as I still was not completely sure on the colour scheme of my magazine, so I kept it as yellow. Then I realised I wanted the head of the central image on top of the title, because I researched quite a few RnB magazines have their covers like that,and make a copy of the layer and cut around his head, then I created another layer and cut around his head again and also down his neck to make the part where his head is white, but I didn’t include the forehead, then I merged the two together. I went back to in design and saved each part on a different layer and I put the title layer on top of the head layer this allowed me to get what I wanted. Next week I would like to have created some more text for my magazine, because the only text I have is the title.