This is my first print design to post!
Although I personally prefer illustrator, but when I learned Indesign......it turned out to be a very nice and neat program.
I always have this thing for organizing and layout, so when I started using Indesign I really loved making magazine covers. I loved the process of selecting the cover photo and selecting the suitable font type, color, size and layout of the text that matches the photo. And of course all this has to reflect the type of the magazine and the type of the magazine readers.
As for this cover, I used both indesign & illustrator. I first placed the picture and wrote the magazine's name in illustrator. I've always liked the effect where part of the magazine's name is hidden behind the person in the photo, and that's exactly what i did here. I put the text path in front of the picture path.I used the eraser tool to remove any part of the text that covers emma watson's figure. Just be careful when erasing so as not to remove text parts on the white background. And have patience.......;)
Then I saved this as a jpg file and imported it to indesign. I centered the file in the document. Then I started adding the magazine's topics! Have fun with the fonts and colors. I prefer sticking with one readable font and playing with the its style (bold or normal). I changed the characters spacing to stretch or shrink the text within the space given. As for the colors, choose matching colors (I prefer using 2 or 3 max.). You can use more than one color in a sentence, depending on the background color, to make sure the text is visible and readable.
Is this post long too!!! I think I beat the previous post :))))
