Existing Front Cover Recreation.

This is my recreation of a current music magazine. I choose to do an issue of ‘VIBE’ magazine. To start with I choose a head-shot of a famous singer. I then had to cut it slightly using the magic wand and make it greyscale. I then added the title onto the image. To do this I typed them out and found a font that replicated the original to the best possible quality. I used this technique for the rest of the writing on the cover. I cut the speech marks from the original cover and free transformed them until they were the size I wanted.

This is the original front cover I based my recreation on. I used the same colour scheme, although I couldn’t quite get the same shade of red. I also found it difficult to match the fonts and the font size exactly. Because of the different shapes of the images it was hard to recreate the equivalent layout . I appreciate that my magazine front cover does not look exact to the original but the experience was good for my Photoshop skills and I now feel more confident about doing my front cover.