Here is where I began, when creating my music magazine cover. I took an image of my main artist and edited it to give it an effect of a painting on PicMonkey.com. Straight after I inserted the same image into Photoshop and started creating my magazine cover. This is my third attempt at creating the main front cover, the last two I created did not meet the criteria of a psychedelic music magazine. I made sure the image is black and white because that way I was able to change the colours of highlights and shadows and could get them as bright as I wanted. This fits in really well with my psychedelic magazine genre. The image under shows that I have made it a lot lighter, using the filter at the top, I adjusted the colours and made it black and white.
After adjusting the colours to black and white using filter, I inserted a vintage paper background to give it a sort of faded look, which will give the magazine cover a vintage/ old look.
I have tried using a different image for the front cover, however I realised that this image is not suitable for the front cover, the model looks too pale and fades in with the background. For a psychedelic magazine, the model should be wearing bright clothes and the magazine itself has to be colourful and eye-catching. After trying out a different image, I realised that it's not as good as my previous photograph for the front cover.
I have decided to use the original image, I intended to use in the first place. This image goes very well with the psychedelic rock genre, and will look a lot neater. I have used a coloured background and mixed it with vintage paper, this will give the magazine a unique sort of look. It will be easier to recognise this music magazine as a psychedelic one because of the old look, because psychedelic rock was mostly popular in the 60's/70's. Psychedelic rock still exists, but it is not as popular as it was back in the late 60's, early 70's. Psychedelic rock reached its peak in 1969, during Woodstock Festival.
In order to make my magazine psychedelic, just like intended. I have decided to use bright colours on the cover, this is why I chose to use dark blue for the shadows of the image, and bright blue for the highlights of the image. I have tried a lot of different colours, but none of the others looked as good as the chosen colours, it also works perfectly with the masthead at the top which is bright red.
In order to create my masthead, I researched different types of psychedelic fonts to find the one I wanted to use the most, since I couldn't find any suitable fonts on Photoshop for my chosen genre. Finally I found the psychedelic font that caught my eye on dafont.com. I couldn't download the font as it was too expensive, so instead I decided to work with one letter at a time to make the masthead perfect, and because I wanted to fit two 'O's' in one line at the top. I typed in 'G' first and print-screened it, then I pasted the picture into PowerPoint and cropped it down, then I saved the letter as an image and inserted it into Photoshop. Using the magic wand tool in Photoshop, I got rid of the white background and dragged the letter onto my original product, the magazine front cover. Then I changed the size using the transformation tool and changed the colour to bright red as I thought it would be appropriate for this kind of genre, I also added drop shadow effect to the letter. I have done the same thing with every other letter in the masthead, in order to make my magazine unique and different I decided to place the letter 'O' on top of the other letter 'O', this adds an interesting effect to my magazine, making it look desirable and funky. Not only will this make my magazine look different and funky but it will also add a new edge to a psychedelic magazine, and the magazine itself will stand out from all the rest. The magazine will not be simple and boring but the complete opposite.
To make sure the colours of each letter are the same I chose the colour first, then copied the code of the colour and changed it on all the other letters, to make sure they're accurate and they all match.
