Production so far – Front Cover

Jordan Rich

I began the front cover process with a picture of Sam Nolan on Photoshop.

I had to use the lasso tool to carefully crop around him to produce the front cover image .

After cutting Sam out, I had to scale him down to a relatively suitable size using the “CTRL +T” tool in order to re-size the image.

Once I had the image cropped, I then applied this turquoise and yellow background as I believed that these colours where connotations of EDM music

The next step for me was simple as I just added the relevant featured texts.

Here is the first draft of my front cover, presented to my teacher. I asked for verbal feedback on how I could change it and how I could potentially improve it.

Once receiving feedback, I was told to change the background colour as well as the image, as I used Sam for my double page spread.

This is the new background which I created by going into a dark room and getting a friend to wave glow sticks as I took a still image.

I replaced the image with another friend called Declan as I was unable to use Sam as he was featuring in the double page spread

Here is my final finished design. I placed all the text back onto the cover and altered the colour to white in order to make the text visible.

Upon receiving feedback for my final front cover. I made a few new alterations. I added an ominous, white glow around Declan and also changed the font and the text colour to give off a proper EDM magazine vibe