Developing Ideas 2: Front Cover

 For my second design I started to look at 'tuned' and modified cars. I started to come up with ideas of cars on the front page, as this is what my subculture revolves around. I came up with many ideas, changing the lettering, or the look of the image to see what look the most interesting, and attractive. This is a photograph I took when I went a Brandshatch race, I edited it in Photoshop as I thought that this was a very good image to use.

 This was my first idea, seeing other front covers from previous Creative Review magazines, I noticed that most of them only have an image on the front, with no text. I tried this with my image, although found that it looks a little bear, and does not fully show Import Scene. I edited the image so that the contrast would show more, I think this is a great effect on the tarmac.

This was another version of the image I create, I changed the image to black and white and added text over the top of the image. I slightly faded the text so you could still see the image behind. I think this idea is not good, because I think the text is too big, and some people could get confused what the magazine is called, and what the main article is about.

Once I create the previous image I wanted to see what it would look like with the effect reversed. I think this makes the front cover look very interesting, and was closely picked out of all my designs to be my final piece. I like the the image is brighter inside the lettering, this focuses you to the text, and the image. I still think the text is too large though.

I like the previous idea so much that I decided to black the whole front cover, although only showing the image though the text. I thought that this would make a great effect to the image, and make the front cover look very interesting. The reason why I didn't further develop this idea was because I was worried that the front cover had to much black, and this looked very plain, and uneventful. I think if the text was larger and could cover the page more and showing the image of the car more, I think this would be a success. 

I then thought as they is too much black in the previous image, I would show the picture of the car, although fade it in slightly thought the black. I then outlined the writing with white so you could see the text clearly, and I also brightened up the image behind the text so this would create an interesting effect. I did not pick this version, because I thought that this did not catch my eye, and was not an attractive front cover.

 In this version I edited the background picture a lot, I first used the lasso tool around the car and duplicated the car to a new layer. I then used a filter to blue the background to look like the car was moving at high speed, then used the blur tool around the car to merge it in with the background. I then increased the contrast, and brightness with the background layer. I finally added the text, and slight made it opaque. I think the text is slight to large for the front cover.

This is another version of the previous image although i removed the text to see what it would look like. I think this front cover looks neat and professional, although I think it needs a title. I think the effects used on the image looks interesting, and makes the image stand out.