My Magazine Cover
For my magazine cover I used the layout of a Seventeen magazine cover. Seventeen is one of my favorite magazines. I subscribe to them so I read every single issue. I love fashion, makeup and celebrities and all of those things are in this magazine. One day I do hope to either work for a fashion magazine or I want to have my own magazine someday. I used a picture of myself for the magazine cover. Usually they have top celebrities like Beyonce, Katy Perry and Lauren Conrad on the cover, but in this project we were supposed to use ourselves. My photo was taken on my cell phone, so it is very small which made it blurry when I blew it up. I had to try different Principals of Design to see if they could change the picture. I ended up using the posterize tool. It made the picture look less blurry but it did add lines all over it, which made it look like there were pixels everywhere. All the other Principals of Design made the picture lose color or it made it too bright. I had a lot of text all over the picture and my theme color for the text was orange and purple. Each caption had a different font, color, and size that made them all stand out in their own way. The title stands out the most because it is one of the biggest words on the picture. On every Seventeen magazine they have the title on the top in big letters, like most magazines. All around the picture they also have advice, tips and they give you hints on what is in the magazine. Some techniques I used were to scatter the text all around the picture. I also moved the title to the side so my whole face would be seen. I got ideas for the captions from past issues but I made up most of them. Overall, I was happy on the outcome of my magazine cover.
