Week 4...preliminary task...

This is my front cover from my preliminary task. I have photoshopped the photo, in many ways. I used a blur filter on the background so the writing would be more clearer. I also increased the saturation to make the photo much brighter. One mistake i made was making the whole front cover in a word document. I should have used photoshop, becasue this then lead to me having trouble printing the whole page off. Although, making it on word, made me find it a little more easier to make the cover. For example the title is word art and the text is in a text box. One thing i do admire about this is the sub heading at the bottom of the page, "The SQuid card is here!". I like the fact i enlarged this text and placed it on top of the person in the photo at the bottom. It is large for readers to see and a call out that can drag readers in to read this magazine. The competition in the star, i thought, added to the cover. Its bright colour and placement definately calls out the the reader and it can be seen from a distance. Finally at the bottom of the cover is a ( ). I felt i had to include one of these because it can add advertisement and a bit of added information to get the reader to buy the magazine.