Images And Final Design For Front Cover

I do not like the light switch, the photo frame and the border present in the image. When taking this photo, I had the flash on so the photo did not come out blurry. However, you can see the reflection of the light in the room on her glasses so you cannot really see one of her eyes properly.













This image is the edited one which I edited on Photoshop. I edited it because I did not like the photo frame, the light switch and the border on the wall. It looks better with a plain white background. However, I do not like her facial expression. Although it is natural, on the front of most Rock magazines the people are either doing a rock pose or are standing there with a normal facial expression. You can see the reflection of the light in the room on her glasses so you cannot really see one of her eyes properly.








Again, I do not like the light switch, the photo frame and the border on the wall. I like her facial expression in this photo. You can still see the reflection of the light in the room on her glasses but this time it is on the rim of her glasses instead of the lens.

I edited the image again in Photoshop. It looks better with a plain white background. This photo was taken with the flash on and it makes the photo look brighter and more sharp. I will use this image to go on the front of the magazine as it is the most appropriate image out of the three that I have chosen to analyse.













Yet again, I do not like the light switch, the photo frame and the border in the image. She is smiling which makes the image look better.















I edited this again in Photoshop as I did not want the light switch, the photo frame and the border present. I had to use the brush tool more in this photo as the background colour was not all the same colour as I did not use the flash on the camera. Without the flash on, the image of the person looks darker and her face is slightly blurry. Also, without the flash it created a darker shadow.

Fan" Images:

This was taken at night. Two of them are doing the "rock-on" pose and the third is in the background sitting, looking straight at the camera. I do not think I will use this image as it is slightly blurry and the person in the background is pixelated. However, I do like the "rock-on" pose.

One of them is not looking at the camera and is not pulling a silly face like fans normally do which is a shame as it would have been a nice image to use.

There are four people present in this image. They are young people so they are good to use as "fans". They all have different facial expressions which is good as fans would not normally have a serious face when having their photo taken and they look like they are having fun.

I created three title ideas using the "cracked" look a bit like the Kerrang! title. My title ideas are different to that of Kerrang! because in the Kerrang! title, the cracks start from a point and go out and there are only two points whereas mine have lots of cracks all over the place. I chose the third design because it looks better as the cracks are going in both directions, whereas, the first one the cracks are going right and the second one the cracks are going left.

Stages Of Front Cover:

I created this in Adobe InDesign CS4. All of the writing has been placed onto the document except the soloist's name. The positioning of thw writing looks fine but I may re-arrange some of it.

I've decided to create my front cover in Microsoft Word as it is easier to use and none of the writing becomes pixelated.

I decided to re-create the front cover using Photoshop.

This is the Final.