HOMEWORK.

This is the picture i started with. If you have read my previous blog, you'll be wondering where the trolleys are! Well sadly i couldn't use that picture as we couldn't get it onto the school system. So i decided to get a picture from google images.
So going from my base picture i've managed to turn it into my front cover. I've added text, pictures and i've also edited the picture slightly. I firstly chose the background picture because it's a beautiful picture of the English countryside. This ties in with the name of my magazine "Our Country" the name of the magazine denotes that it will be about England. But also the word country has a double meaning, the magazine it's not just about the country England it's about England's countryside. I used this particular text as i thought it would appeal to the audiencei've aimed the magazine at. It adds a bit of class to the front cover. For the main articles that are featured i used a more clear and bold text. I done this so that it was easy for the reader to see what will be featured in the magazine. I super imposed a picture of Bill Oddy onto the cover as he is someone who everyone associates with nature. He is a famous t.v presenter, nature lover and book writter. There is an interview in the magazine with him too so i thought he should have a main place on the front cover to attract readers. I also took this picture from google images, i then cut it out using the magnet lasso tool. I then used the "free transform" option follwed by cut and then i pasted Bill onto my front cover. Lastly i edited the original image slightly. I enhanced the colours of the water using the colour editing tools and i also made it look brighter by lowering the shadow and by putting the brightness up. I done this to make it more pleasing to the eye (not that it wasn't a lovely picture anyway).

All together i believe that the tools i and techniques i used on photoshop helped me to produce a good front cover for a nature magazine.