As presented in my last post, the photo which I decided to use for my cover is this:
After thorough thinking and multiple tries, I am excited to have achieved the end cover and present it on here. What took more than expected was editing the skin colours as for them to be similar, while still managing to keep the balance of differences between the models.
Moreover, I used the light filtering tools on photoshop in order to play with lightning and colours and find the best-looking version of the photo, and although not a big difference, I believe that the small details of enhancing the natural colour or diminishing the bright nuances really turned the photo into a professional one, which would attract the eyes of our target audience in shops and get bought - earning us a profit.
PROCESS
The way in which I learnt to use photoshop was mostly by trying out all settings and options and figuring out what worked where on my own. I did have some help from my media studies teacher, as se explained to both Ilinca and I some basic rules, but I am happy to have finally figured out how the options needed for my magazine worked.
As you can see, my main trouble was with the fonts - which to use. It took me a long time to finally find some - as well as a colours - which match my vision and not only worked well but looked professional as well.
As presented in our flat-plans, our cover was meant to be rather simple from the beginning. Therefore, besides the main cover line - which presents the magazine topic - I added the barcode, our instagram username (we believe that the print industry is slowly changing in the form of online magazines and social media, therefore instagram is a big part of a magazine these days as it not only reaches out to a lot of people but big accounts are often paid for their posts), and the date of the issue - mine being April 2021.
Final Result
As you can see, I wanted the cover to look as real as possible. I added a barcode as well in order to really simulate the reality of it. Moreover, as seen above in the font and colour try-outs, I finally managed to write the 'confidence' word in a rather transparent font with a colour which shaped based on the back-round of it. This was incredibly helpful as it no longer blended with the colour of the model's skin, and gave the whole cover-line a fresh look.
What took me a long time was the SYLK logo, which I found rather hard to locate in the back of the models but managed after some tries, while also being happy about managing to correct the skin colours as to match better than before in order for the other details to stand out.
Overall, I believe that through my final cover I achieved what I wanted from the beginning and hence made my vision come to life, being really proud of myself for that. I am also really excited to put the magazine into the final digital form!
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