Mostly Finished Front Cover

Here is my finished front cover for my magazine. It has only one image on it but I wanted to use it as the main image and as the background anyway so it was what I planned. The colours worked out the way I wanted to. The purple didn't look bold enough on its own so I added the black borders to the font and a white inside glow and it made it stand out well. I added a banner across the top even though it wasn't in my plan but the space was to blank without it. I didn't want to make the picture any bigger because his arms would be cut out of the image and i wanted the image to look the way it is. The barcode, price and issue is on the bottom right still. I adjusted the cover lines on the front cover to be placed on plain parts of the image and the background so it doesn't take any of the attention away from the main image. The beach in the background looks fake but that was the look I wanted so it would look cheesy and portray pop music. All of the text had black borders and white inside glows because it didn't look right having only the purple bordered but I liked the way it looked because it looked. I might make a few final adjustments before I hand the work away to make it look a little better. I might make the main image bigger to have less of the blue background because it looks a little plain. I might also move the main cover line down a bit to fill the space at the bottom more.