You’re on the Cover!You will use your digital editing skills in Photoshop to create a magazine cover including your head shot or body shot.

©Renée Cole 2020

• Open Photoshop

• File>New>

• Name the image Magazine Cover sized 8.5x11 with a 300 resolution

• Create

Name

Sizes

Create

• Think of an original TITLE for your magazine

• Name the layer BACKGROUND• Add a RECTANGLE to your canvas and

fill with a color

• Add a layer name it TITLE

• Use the text tool to add the title

NOTE: You may NOT use a popular title it must be an ORIGINAL!

• Think of FOUR HEADLINERS use the text tool to add them (See example at the end of title and headliners)

On the left

Layer Panel

Name

Add Layer

• Use EFFECTS to make all the text stand out

• Save as (your initials)MAGAZINE in your Digital Photography folder

NOTE: Remember to SAVE often while you work!

TITLE

Headliners

• Find a minimum of two images and save from the Internet (school appropriate) to edit and merge onto your canvas to emphasis the headliners

• Add either or both your head shot and/or body shot as the largest image on the page

• Include the Date and Price somewhere on your magazine

• Create a barcode (Hint: you might want to draw this using lines)

• Spell check!• Save as Magazine Cover• Export as .jpg • Upload into your Digital Photography folder

Go to the next slide to see the grading rubric

POINT VALUE

Student Graded

POINTS EARNED

Title, Date, Price 15Two additional Images Merged 20Four headliners and Barcode 10Head/Body shot (Extra points if both used) 25

Effective Use of Tools 10Exported as jpeg 10Filename and in Digital Photography folder 10

Total Points 100Comments