Front Cover

This is my final draft of my front cover; you can see that I have added in my main image and changed the font of my main cover line.
I edited my main image quite subtly as Ollie is supposed to be a young star of only 16 and did not want her to look much older than this. I also did not feel the need to add any artificial highlights or eye colour changes. The first thing I did do when editing my main image was to cut Ollie away from the background however I did not want this cut to be sharp and obvious, to make this subtle I selected Ollie using the magic lasso tool and then opted to “feather” the image leaving the edges of my selection smooth and natural looking.
When placing the main image on to the front cover I readjusted the order of the layers to make my magazine appear more realistic. To do this I brought the layer of the masthead behind the main image and the layer containing the main cover line forward so it is seen to be on top of Ollie’s legs this makes the image look a great deal more professional.
Finally I changed the font I had originally chosen to use for my main cover line to a more graffiti style font to make it fit in with the masthead as these are the two most important pieces of text on the front cover so I tried to make a link between them by using similar fonts, however my masthead is still the most eye catching piece of text due to its positioning and font size.