Creating my front cover

Before I started putting together the front cover, I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 to edit my photo.

I made the image a lot lighter than it was originally, for two reasons. The first reason was because I wanted the background to be 100% white, and the only way I could find to do this was to lighten the image. The second reason was that I feel it makes the image 'frosty' and adds to the Christmas/wintery feel of the Christmas edition.

Here are four screen shots of the steps I took to create my front cover, using Microsoft Publisher.

Step One

I added the edited photograph and enlarged it to fit within the page. I then added the title 'College Monthly' in large blue letters at the top of the page.

Step Two

I then added some clipart snowflakes surrounding the masthead, and added the month and edition, and the price.

Step Three

  

I added the wording in the places I wanted them to go.

Step Four

The final steps I took to finishing my front cover were: adding an image to go with the shoe box appeal, adding the snowman competition feature at the bottom (on the folder), and adding colour to each feature.