Magazine Cover

Assignment #5: (Newbie) Magazine Cover

Students are to demonstrate their knowledge of using Photoshop tools including masking tools, image resizing and filters. They must create a Magazine Cover with a background of 8.5″ x 11″, where they are the “Cover” story on a Magazine of their choosing or creation. The cover should include a self-protrait, captions and page numbers where the cover story can be found, additional stories that may be found in the edition of the fantasy magazine, edition date and UPC label. Composition, masking, detail, perspective and other basic design technique will be included in the grading. Files must be saves as native .psd and also as a jpg. Students will upload their final piece as a jpg to their ePortfolios to their Digital media page with the assignment order number, and with a detailed assignment description (can be copied and pasted from here) and reflection restating what they did, how they did it, and how they feel about their work.

Reflection-

In this project I made a magazine cover using Photoshop.  I decided to use a people magazine and have the cover all about soccer.  I started with a grey background and added some effects on it.  I used the text tool a lot, to write some captions on all the photos.  I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out some of the players.  The last tool I used was the box tool. I used that to make the blue border and to make the box around the text.  I think I’m getting better at using Photoshop since this is my second time using it.  I really hope Miss Leslie will like it!