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; For this project we had to design a magazine cover, using yourself as the cover page and main article, then add smaller articles to it. First I had to take a picture of my self, since I love photography I wanted to do a photography magazine so Else took a picture of me with with a camera for the cover. Then I added a title for it. Second I added other articles that went along with the photography theme, I got the pictures from the internet and cut them out then added text to the. I really enjoyed doing this project because I liked designing my own magazine.

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