Construction of my front page

When creating my front page the first thing I did was to open the page as A4 international size (same as the one used in various magazines). The first step was to create all the text (specifically my masthead and subtitles) using both the deafult text featured and the text i got from dafont.com in order to make the text stick out and that it fits with the theme of my magazine

The next step was to Photoshop one of the photos taken so that i removed him from the natural background so that he could become part of the background i was going to apply I used the magnetic lasso tool to do this but I also used the circle shape tool to highlight certain areas and also remove them (particularly smaller ones). I also added lightning effects to my front page (inspired by metal hammers fire effect), this was done by taking an image of lightning a photo shopping specific section into the front page in order to make the magazine seem more dramatic and the effect works well with the music that my magazine features.

The next step was to decide which background to use since my magazine was based around rock/heavy metal music I wanted a background that really contributed towards that them. I wanted something that jumped out at the reader and was very bold; it also had to very dramatic and powerful as well. Eventually I found a background that looked like an explosion which really went well with the theme of my magazine.

The final step was to change the colour of the background because the original colour didn't work well with the images and text because it completely over shadowed them and I also had add other effects to the images like a drop showed to make them seem joined into the background rather than being out of place and unusual.