My magazine cover

First I selected the image that I wanted to use and opened it in InDesign.

I then added a title using the font that I wanted which is Baskerville but I have adjusted the tracking, the vertical scale and the horizontal scale.

After that I added a barcode. I did it then instead of at the end because I knew I would've probably placed text there and then had to rearrange everything to make room for the barcode.

I then started playing around with different typefaces and text. Seeing where it would look best.

After playing around with text and images, this is what it looked like.

I found that the text was quite hard to read with the background that I had, so I decided to remove the background of the original image and just use a plain dark grey one. And I also didn't like some of the text that I was using so I also altered that.

This is what it then looked like, as you can see I changed some of the colours of the cover lines to give it a bit more contrast as it looked quite dull. However, I was still unhappy with the typeface that was in white so I decided to have a look at some different typefaces.

To add some contrast I looked for a thinner font that would contrast with the red, here the font I look at was Abadi MT condensed light. As you can see this typeface is much too thin for a front cover because the text doesn't stand out at all and is hard to read from a distance.

I then realised that having the grey background made the magazine cover look dull. So, using the eye dropper tool on photoshop I clicked on her face and used it as the colour of my background (after making it lighter). This made the front cover look much brighter.

I also had to change the colour of the text because the colour that it was clashed with the background colour. I also noticed that I hadn't left much margin space on the left either. So I moved the text to the right a bit and realised that because my text was in black and the model is wearing black I lost a lost of the text because it was difficult to read.

To solve this I added white text boxes behind the text so it was easier to read. I also noticed that there was a lot of black on my cover so to add a bit of contrast I changed the colour of the graphics (the lines) to a maroon/red colour.

This is the completed magazine cover.