my college magazine cover

I decided to create a college magazine cover to give me a good idea of what I am going to do when it comes to creating my very own magazine cover  for my coursework. Making this cover has allowed me to recover my Photoshop skills from last year as I forgot some of them. Also this has given me an idea about what I am going to do for my magazine cover when it comes the colours and topic as you see here I used light colours as it is Christmas time. I also tried to keep the cover simple as it is aimed towards students and they wouldn't want to read a lot. The cover is quite plain for this reason. I wanted to show students working as my magazine this term is going to advertise cardinal heenans sixth form. I feel that I could have made it a bit more elaborate if I knew how to use other tools and techniques. If I used other tools and techniques I feel as though I could make my cover look a lot more professional and stand out to other covers. The cover also looks quite bland and boring so on my music magazine cover I will have to make sure its more unique and interesting. I also used two different images and merged them to give an impression that everyone works as a team and together, it also shows a friendly environment.I also used a blue and white colour scheme and house style to promote christmas and show that it is the winter term issue.