Assignment #26
Photoshop Project 11
Due Date: April 29
Summary
Invent your own magazine and design the cover in Photoshop.
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Background
- Review the terms used for the anatomy of a magazine cover in the image above.
- Different types of magazines have different approaches to cover design.
- Designers select the colors and images and arrange the layout to appeal to their target audience.
- Take a look at these magazine covers.
Getting Started
- Brainstorm ideas for your magazine and for the articles you will feature on the cover. Who is your target audience?
- Review the concepts of layout, color theory and typography.
- Draw three thumbnails on a sheet of paper.
- Create a new folder in your home folder called lastname_project_11.
- Create a new document in Photoshop:
- Name: magazine cover
- Preset: U.S. Paper
- Size: Letter
- Resolution: 300 pixels/inch
- Click OK and save the document in your lastname_project_11 folder.
- Collect images and ideas from the Internet or from our morgue file
Requirements
- You must invent your own magazine. Do not create a cover for an existing magazine.
- You must begin by sketching out three thumbnail images on a sheet of paper.
The cover must have:
- A masthead (magazine logo) which is easy to identify and read.
- At least one large feature photo or illustration as a main image on the cover. The main image must be manipulated in Photoshop to best suit your magazine.
- A selling line/slogan near the masthead which hints at the magazine’s theme (for example: fashion, cars, celebrities.)
- At least one cover line.
- The dateline (the publication date as an exact date, or as a month and year).
- (A bar code is optional.)
Turn in Your Work
- Turn your thumbnail drawings into the inbox on the front table.
- Put all of your digital working files and the final image called magazine cover.psd into your lastname_project_11 folder. Turn this folder into the "Project 11" folder in the Inbox.
