Front Cover Development

Small flowery detail between date and price, tiny detail that I noticed the professional magazines used... Therefore I chose my own shape to use because even the smallest details pull the whole thing together and make it look more professoinal.

(Zoomed out view.)

Adding in the enigmas and sell lines, text wrapping around the image to give it space and look less cluttered. Changed the font along the bottom to the same font as 'Charity Shop Chic' because otherwise there would be three different fonts on the front cover - which is too many. So I cut down the number of fonts.

Autoshape to draw attention to a certain article, an idea that I picked up from the front covers of 'Glamour' and 'Cosmopolitan'.

Too much white space in top right hand corner.

Experimenting with making the masthead larger to fill in the white gaps.
'N.East UK' to specify the area that the magazine is targeted at. (For example if the magazine was taken national each different region would have their region on the top of their version of ROHO).
In front of image - makes the masthead easily readable, but there aren't really that many visable layers, so there's less depth.
Also changed the font of the 'HOT OFF THE STREETS' along the bottom because the other font was too fussy, and there were too many fonts on the front over. I want to keep it to only 2 or 3 fonts so that it isn't too distracting.

Same as above, but the masthead is beneath the image. Text is less clear and harder to read, but gives the front cover more depth.

Top right hand corner. Fills in the blank white space, is more clear than the the version before hand AND it gives depth because it is partly behind the image. Although the side that says 'ROHO' is rather empty because the letters have been given spaces between in order to fill in more width.
Possible improvements - make the letters thicker and wider, with less space between... but then the letters would be as wide as they were high, and professional magazines always have tall thin letters as they look much better than short fat letters.

I moved the 'Beaute Tips' autoshape from the side of the models face to the top right corner. By making it smaller it is less intrusive on the page, and it also fills in the problematic blank space at the top of the page.

I could then make the title wider and bolder to fill up more of the space on the left, and by keeping it behind the image there's more depth to the cover.
I also added on another autoshape - an opaque circle. I saw a similar thing on a 'Cosmopolitan' magazine, it is acting as a teaser to get people interested in the magazine because they have something to gain from it. The autoshape also  fills in the gap left after the origional 'Beaute Tips' autoshape was moved.

I think that this version and changed layout looks a lot more professional than the previous one.