Editing my Magazine Advert

Because I am using the same photos that I used for my front cover, I did not need to do a separate photo-shoot for my magazine advert.

To start off, I created a new A4 sized canvas.

I opened up my album cover, and selected the first photo from the top right hand corner of the album cover. I then copied it.

I pasted this photo onto my A4 sized canvas and placed it near the top right hand corner.

I copied and pasted the rest of the pictures from the album cover, one by one, onto the A4 canvas, leaving a small, equal sized gap between each picture. I then added the text 'Destiny's Child' in the same colour and font which I had used on the front cover: 'adobe caslon pro'.

I wanted to add a small diamond to separate each piece of information on the page, so I added a full stop, changed the font to 'lucida calligraphy', which has diamonds as full stops, and increased the font size until the 'diamond' had reached the size I desired.

I added the album title, 'Happy face' underneath, in the same colour and font it had the album's front cover. I made the font size slightly larger than the font used for 'Destiny's Child'. Below that I added another 'diamond'.

Below that I wrote text saying 'the new album' and mentioned two released, 'hit' singles from the album. The text was in the same colour and font used for the text 'Destiny's Child', however the names of the two released singles were in the same colour used for the text 'Happy Face', so that they would stand out slightly. Beneath that I added another 'diamond'. 

I went online and saved a picture of give black stars, to use a ratings on my magazine advert.

I opened up the stars on Adobe Photoshop CS4, then copied and pasted them onto the bottom of the page. I added text underneath of the people who had 'rated' the album. After this I added the release date at the top of the page, and a border around the whole page to make it stand out slightly more.

This is my final magazine advert.