Final Changes To Front Cover

Above Left: First Draft

Above Right: Final Draft

From looking at both the above images, it's clear to see what improvements I have made on the front cover of my magazine. 

The masthead has increased in size as I feel this makes the whole page look much more eye-catching, and also works better with the main image. 

The main image of the page now overlaps the masthead, giving it a much more professional look. I did think by copying and pasting the image, using the 'irregular crop' tool to crop around the head as you can see from the screen-shot on the right.

I then added in layers onto the page of my front cover to make it possible for the cut out image to overlap onto the masthead. The four layers I sectioned the page into are shown on the left. 

- I also enhanced the fonts on quite a few parts of the cover, for example on the strip at the top of the page and the circlular, sticker-like puff using more appropriate fonts. 

- As well as this, I added a subheading underneath the masthead saying 'Artists - Genres - Music' making it clearer to the audience what 'The Mix' is about. 

- I made some of the text smaller around the page too, as i wanted the audience's focus to be mainly on the 'Skies Of Until' heading and story, also helping them to know what relevance the picture had and which caption it links up with.