Here is evidence of me creating my front cover. I used Photoshop to create it, as Photoshop offers the right tools in order to create the front cover to a professional standard.
I used Photoshop to create my font as I got two fonts, and merged them, by layering one font behind the over in order to give it a two tone effect, as I changed the colour of the duplicate font to red, to give it a two tone effect as the original font is black, and the duplicate is red. I also used the rectangle tool, in order to create the borders for the text, and also to underline key points on the front cover.
I also used the spot-healing brush tool in order to remove any blemishes on my model, in order for him to look perfect, and spotless for the magazine, as this is required at a professional level.
I also used the lighting tool in order to visually enhance the artist I photographed as it makes him stand out more.
I also used the Impact font which is already available in Photoshop, and really stands out, and gets in the audiences face which connotes that the audience would be mentally drawn to my magazine as the fonts stand out.
I did not cut the artist out of the original image that I photographed, as the look of it being in a natural surrounding e.g. the artist being photographed against a wall, really connotes the grimey logistics of hip-hop in general and again connotes back to my genre, as I am doing a hip-hop magazine.
Overall, I think the tools I used really helped perfect the front cover of my magazine, as the aesthetics really help bring the artist out on the front cover.
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