Photoshop skills task - Create Popsplash magazine Cover.

Creating the 'Popsplash' magazine cover was a small task that we did before the production of our music magazines began and this was helpful because it was the first time since creating my 'RADAR' magazine that I got to test my Photoshop skills on creating a magazine, and to see how they had developed. As the genre information to put on the cover for 'Popsplash' was already decided and given to us I began with research into that are of magazines. After looking at a few other magazines and thinking what the age group would be which is 9 to 14 year old girls I knew that one of the most important factors was picking the right colours and a common choice was pale background colours such as the blue I used and bright colours to correspond to them to make this masthead, cover lines and pull quotes stand out and grab the readers attention. I also took into account that in younger female magazines such 'gossip', 'seventeen' they all use a wide variety of fonts which in some genres could seem too much and tacky but this genre it works well and is a clear common convention that occurs in them, this is why I used a variety of fonts for the cover lines.