How I produced the front cover

1. My first task was to find a suitable font, settling on "28 days later" with various effects.

2. I then added the image of Sophie, which had been edited in photoshop

3. I adjusted the picture so it went to the left of the page

4.I then started to add cover lines, beggining with "Black Eyed Peas- Kanye West- Arctic Monkeys... win tickets for the hottest gigs around!"

5. I added other cover lines

6. Firstly, I tried using green and pink, as I thought green brought out the colours in Sophie's dress- this was a bad idea. I found the two colours less than complemented each other, therefore opted for black and pink. Black, as a base colour, is a good colour to use for any magazine anyway, as it is easy to read on most backgrounds and complements most other colours. I also altered the colour of Sophie's dress, by adjusting the lighting and using the "smudge" tool. This meant it was not so green, providing no need for the green font which I thought I needed.

7. I then progressed to add mandatory items for a magazines front cover, such as a bar code, issue number, price and date.

8. I re-jigged the front cover a little more, centering the title and aligning the date, issue number and price with the header.

9 . I had had a bit of a problem with Sophie's arm in the photo- it streched to the other side of the magazine front cover, so I tried to cover it up with a white square, however, when this was tilted over her arm, it did not look right. After much angst about it, I removed the white square and carefully made Sophie's arm a bit less bold using the eraser tool. The finished product meant it did not look silly, but the arm did not interrupt any cover lines.

10. This is my final piece, after going through my stages of final production of the front cover!