The document discusses three draft designs for a magazine cover created by the author in Photoshop CS5. Draft 1 uses elements like color, images and layout to resemble a professional magazine. Draft 2 experiments with an unconventional design using slanted text and colored headings. Draft 3 places the title, images and headings in boxes to make information stand out, but could be improved by adding more content.

2. Draft 1
With this design that I have created for my magazine, I thought
that this draft was the best with the use of elements I used on
my magazine from cover. With this draft of the magazine I
wanted it to look like a professional magazine cover. So with
this I was trying to follow the conventions of a professional
magazine in the way in which they layout their magazines.
With this magazine I decided to use Photoshop CS5 to create
this magazine and with this software I thought it would be the
best and most effective in presenting the magazine to the target
audience. The tools I used were:-
Shape
Free transform
Import
Text box
The elements I thought were effective on my magazine front
cover were the use of the bold different colour on the page
helped the different pieces of information stand out to the target
audience and would draw them to the magazine and would
persuade the target audience to want to purchase the magazine
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thought worked well was the use of the images on the front
cover with these images I found that these would draw the
target audience to them and would persuade the target
audience to want to read the story relating to the images used
on the front cover of my magazine. The only improvement that I
would make to this draft even thought I am using it as my official
magazine front cover would be to change the background to
make it stand out more to the target audience and would draw
the target audience to the magazine.

3. Draft 2
With this draft of my magazine front cover, my thoughts for this draft
was that I was trying to create a magazine front cover without using
the conventions of a magazine. I thought of doing this to make my
magazine front cover look different and make it stand out to the
target audience as this would draw them to the magazine. For this
draft of my magazine I kind of used the same element to make this
magazine but I just re-arranged the magazine to make it look
different and to see whether it would look better which this other idea
I had. The elements I used to make this magazine were:-
Shape
Import
Textbox
For this magazine draft also I used Photoshop CS5 to create this
magazine from cover as it was the easiest software to use and to
create the elements I wanted on this draft of my magazine front
cover. With this front cover I thought it would be a good idea to put
the title on a slant at the top of the page as with this it would look
cool and would draw the target audience to the magazine, with the
use of the different coloured headings and the shape this was also a
good technique to use as with these element that made certain
pieces of information stand out to the target audience. The
improvements I would make to this draft of my magazine would have
been to added more content to the magazine as it looks a little bare
in places and doesn't look like a professional magazine.

4. Draft 3
With this draft of my magazine I wanted this draft to be presentable
to the target audience and with this front cover I wanted to use
different elements such as picture and shapes to draw the target
audience to this magazine. With this draft of the magazine I found
that this was the easiest draft to create and I found that this draft
was quite effective in appealing to the target audience.
The different t tools I used to make this magazine front cover were:-
Textbox
Shape
Import
Image
With these tools I used them on the software Photoshop CS5, I used
this software to create this draft of the magazine as it is the easiest
software to use and I found that I was able to create the elements I
wanted on my magazine on this software. With this draft I kind of
looks the same as my first draft of the magazine I decided that I was
going to place the title and the image across the top and I thought
that by placing to images to the left of the page and placing heading
in box (shapes) would help the information stand out to the target
audience and with this it would make my magazine effective. The
improvement I would have made to this draft of my magazine would
be to have placed more content on there such as by the shape there
is space by it which doesn't look good.