Front Cover Development #3

So far I am pleased with my front cover design, as I like the layout of my sell lines, masthead and banner at the bottom. There is a clear monochrome colour scheme however I feel this makes my front cover look more relevant to males as it is quite dark, and doesn't integrate very effectively with my main image. Using the eyedropper tool on Photoshop I selected the lip colour of my model and played around with changing certain aspects of my design to this colour, to make it more appealing to the eye and attention grabbing. This is shown in the print screens below. I have also added a drop shadow to my main sell line to set it apart from the main image even more and added interview to the 'exclusive' box to give some extra information and grab attention. 

First I decided to change all of the dark navy blue aspects of my front cover, into this red shade as it compliments the paler blue nicely and matches the lipstick of my model. The dominant colour of my front cover here is the red which I think does look nice however it is not very bold and dominating, nor professional looking as the sell lines don't contrast enough to stand out well. As I was not completely happy with how this experiment turned out, I added back in the dark blue and minimised how much red and pale blue was used to see how this would look. 

I really like how this slight change in arrangement has turned out - I have made my sell lines the dark blue colour to reincorporate this as the main colour, and this has made them much more eye catching and clear on the page. I have now only got pale blue used here for my main sell line which I really like as it is clearly set apart from the rest of the text and contrasts well with the dark hair and clothing of my main image. I have kept a red banner at the bottom to draw attention to this major appeal of my front cover, and the date so it isn't too faded in comparison to my main headline which I feel looks much better as the dark blue I had originally chosen as this is a bold colour which stands out well. This final arrangement of 3 main colours on my page looks very effective and professional I feel, as well as being more gender neutral due to the red and more interesting and appealing to look at.

I have added a small banner to fill the white space in the top right hand corner of my page, which includes a USP of my magazine which is a competition inside which will encourage readers to buy the magazine to find out more when they see this magazine on a shop shelf.