Evaluation of unit 1

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.

My magazine double page spread

I had taken a lot of images that I would use in my magazine cover and double page spread so I had a lot to choose from. When I chose a selection that I wanted to use in my double page spread, I edited them on a programme called iPiccy.

I edited her eye colour from a greyish blue to green because I thought it went really well with her hair colour.

I then thought that not adding any effects to the image might be a bit boring because I didn't have any effects on the image that is used on my front cover. So I experimented with a few effects.

I finally decided to use the image that had the effect 'daguerrotype' because I thought it was quite subtle in contrast to the effect on the image I used for my cover page.

I then drew a shape using the pen tool on the left page and coloured it pink and altered the opacity.

I then added the header using two contrasting fonts, a script typeface and a sans serif typeface. Gills sans ultra bold and DearJoe 5 casual which I downloaded off dafont.

I then added two collumns of text (Loren Ipsum) keeping in line with my grid.

I placed my quote off centre of the page, because if I had everything in line with the grids it would be quite boring.

I realised that nothing stood out on the page and there were hardly any contrasts. So I altered this..

I changed the colour of my heading and the size to add more contrast and make it stand out more.

I also inserted a quote in between the two columns using the same typeface as the heading (as I didn't want to use too many different typefaces).

I copied the graphic that was on my left page and placed it over my picture on the right altering the opacity. This would make my pages link more.

I then made space for an image.

After choosing the image that I wanted to use I edited it on iPiccy using the same effect (daguerrotype) as I did on the right page of my double page spread.

I placed the edited image on my double page spread..

This is the final piece.

Cover draft

Here is my cover draft, I decided on a serif typeface for the title 'ENVY' and decided to place nearly all of my text on the left so it would looked balanced with the photo on the right.