Magazine Design Final Product

I ran into a few difficulties with this project, mainly having to do with not having a complete understanding of how to use InDesign. The first aspect of the cover that I made was the model, then the magazine title and background. I had to create the model, title, and background in Photoshop, then link the layers and drag them to InDesign in order to have the model’s head in front of the title without having the white box surrounding her cover the title as well. After figuring that out, I moved on to adding text. I chose the background color to match with the model’s bikini bottom, and used bright colors for the text that would both be visible when placed on the blue background, but would also not clash with anything else on the cover. For some of the cover stories, I imitated  Shape’s text design by highlighting some of the text boxes and making different lines of text different sizes. I made up some of the cover stories (such as the Candice Swanpool section) and chose some highlights that were used on previous issues.