Initially, I placed my chosen image on the layout, as this would be my base to the rest of the image, and the mast head of the publication.
I spent a fair time trying to find a font that would appeal enough and fit for purpose to the kind of message I would like to send; I finally settled on Minion Pro as it appears as both bold and statement, this I think promotes a more confident and a possible iconic style. I ended up playing around with the leading and height and width percentages to get the effect I wanted.
I then begun placing planned text boxes on page (coverlines), filling them as planned with information about what was inside the cover. I initially used Papyrus to contrast the masthead, as I thought it to be more delicate and chose to use a white in hopes of contrasting the image behind as using black didn't work very well. I also added a white rectangle in the lower left hand corner, placing the bar code image upon it and adding details such as the price, what issue, date and the website.
Deciding against using Papyrus, I changed it back to Minion Pro and removed the large 'list-like' text so I can focus on two major cover lines. I chose to try and keep with the Masthead to tag line colour differentiation, in order to keep some kind of theme. The text itself had leading editing in order to pull it more tightly together.
But, that way, it all blended together and looked bland, so I reversed it and found it far more effective.
To finish, I simply added Boss, Drop Shadow and Bevle effects to both the mast head and my main coverline to make the image really stand out.
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