Description – Assignment #4: 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 – This assignment was really fun!! I really enjoyed doing it!  I think I did a great job for this assignment.  We had to create a magazine cover.  We would either start from scratch, or find a blank template.  I started from scratch.  I included a cover story, a picture of my friends and myself, three other cover stories, an edition, and some other describing details!