Magazine Cover Project 1 and 2. Assigned 3/6, due 3/11 - Minor and MAJOR (2nd cover) - Last two grades of the 3rd 9 weeks

Let's get started on these magazine covers. I have decided that we are just going to use Canva to do these covers. So....go here:

https://www.canva.com/

I strongly recommend that you do a Google Image search for Magazine Covers and find some samples that you might use. You will have 3 in-class days to make 2 covers (including today).

You should start mocking up your cover mentally - come up with a name, make a date line, start looking for a bar code or making one, starting to think about headlines (called cover lines in the magazine world), colors, design elements you may want to include in your magazine cover. Look at your samples. You should be making an Image-based cover. You should have multiple cover lines. You should be careful and plan for color AND font use. It should not look like the crayon box vomited on the page, and the text should legible. We will talk more about this over the next two classes.

You MUST use your portrait for one of these covers and your self-portrait for the other. 

Your Magazine Cover MUST include the following:

You will need to complete the following:

A. Magazine name

Think carefully about the font you use

You may not use the name of a real magazine (except on accident) - so please get creative!!

B. A teaser / cover line (headline type description) for the main story.

You will need at least 3-5 other cover lines on your cover.

C. Pricing and date information and a bar code (appropriately sized!!)If you want to do some fun things with your image, like putting text over your photo or making a cut-out, here are some tutorials:

If you want to try to add a second or even third photo to duplicate a magazine cover you like, go for it.

You will be making TWO covers over the next couple of classes, and they will need to look different from each other. The easiest way to make these look different from each other is to do some fun treatments with the photo and the title of your magazine. 

First, you could do a cutout in Canva and remove part of the background of your image. Like this one:

This can be done in Canva. You can do a google search and type in, how do I do a cutout in Canva. Here is a link to one I found (I hope it works for you): 

https://youtu.be/038f_SoKSGs?si=UAsKxJ0l2kA3J327

I am sure there are more tutorials out there - see if you can find one.

The other thing you can do is called a text overlap. With this, you place SOME of your text behind the image. This can also be done in Canva.

Here is an example:

Again, you can just do a Google search and type in how do I put text behind an image in Canva.

Here is a link to one I found (again, I hope it works for you):

https://youtu.be/JiMVvHFPalk?si=IQiummOeXBijdgRR

For ONE of your covers, you must do one of the two options above. There are other ways to do these two options and the simplest program to use to do them is Photoshop. If you are comfortable in Photoshop, it is available to you and I can help you get it open on your computer. There are lots of tutorials out there that will help you with these two things if you decide to use Photoshop. Find a good tutorial for them.