Music Magazine front cover - Step 2

The next stage was the designing process which involved uploading my image into Photoshop and starting to alter the title and the font to get it to a stage which will stand out and appeal to the target audience. I started with my title and decided to make it pink to match the drums, this may be a risk as it may turn some boys off but NME used the colour pink on one of their issues and it was a great success, it is a faint pink so its not to bright and feminine. I choose the title of my magazine to be called 'NOISE' as music is noise, therefore you can straight away tell that this is going to be a music magazine. Noise also can be considered as information which my magazine is trying to give out about new drummers and music. I choose a font that would stand out against the rest of the magazine so it is eye catching and making people want to read it. Considering layout was also important, I stuck with the normal forms and conventions of magazines as I placed the title at the top of the page above the artists head. I then considered where i should place the name of the artist, I first of all choose the bottom right so that there was a relay on the page, first of all looking at the title then at the image then to the artists name. I chose a lighter pink colour, beige for this as it goes well with the pink from the drums which it is laying on top of and it shows its not as important as the title of the magazine. With the special effects of Photoshop I managed to use 'stroke' which is an effect which makes the writing stand out, which is clearly presented in the image.