After given the task of taking a photograph of the image we would use as our front cover we got working on it straight away.
The types of things i done to my image was enhance the colour to make the greens brighter and more outstanding, I edited the hue and saturation of the image and overall this made it a bolder piece. Ontop of the editing i cut the image down so i could put in a masthead at the top with a green background so that the title of my magazine wouldn't get lost in the shot, the reason i chose the masthead background to be green was so it blended in with the whole theme 'nature' and gave it a fresh look. I used white text so that it would stand out amongst all the greens and natural earthy colours in my photo.
After adding a few stories onto my front cover i felt there needed to be something in the middle of the page so i then thought of a main story which was 'Saving the world by saving the trees' I made the words world and tree bold and used capitals to emphasize the words and on top of that instead of using original white text I used the colour red for both these words to show the importance and represent the love we should have towards both things.
Overall I think I done a good job at making a front cover because it was my first attempt and i feel as though I achieved the purpose of the task however I could still improve it by using a wider range of skills on photoshop.
I think this is a fantastic first attempt. What exactly would you want to do differently? I think maybe a few small graphics would give it a bit more pizzazz.
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