Magazine Cover 2: Masthead and Cover Image
1. Lesson Goals
SWBAT:
1...Set up files
2...Design a Masthead
3...Create an original cover Image
4...Edit color to create a unified color scheme
5...Make design choices that appeal to a target audience
1. Plan out your the placement and size of your image(s). You can include shapes too.
2. Draw rectangles and lines to represent all of the text elements you planned for (see section 3 above)
3. Don't forget to work with Negative Space!
4. Optional: Get an extra sheet of paper and sketch out additional ideas (like the pros do!)
2. File Set Up
1. Load Photoshop
2. File New
3. Use the specs shown left
3. Choose a Font for your Masthead
1. Look at professional examples of magazine covers that match your topic to get ideas. Choose a font that closely matches one that you like.
-- or --
2. Choose one on your own following these general guidelines:
• Use a Simple Font
Serif for more traditional / older audience & topicSans serif for younger / more modern audience & topicUse very decorative font only if it really suits your audience and purpose of magazine
4. Use Point Type
1. Click without dragging to create Point Type
2. Use Center Alignment
5. Cover Art
1. Find an image
2. Extra Credit Options:
• Make your own original image out of 3 or more images
• Use a photograph that you took yourself.
Paint or draw your image
Make sure your image provides enough negative space for your cover teasers and teaser subheads. Or come up with another strategy for your text.
Options
6. Assessment
7. Submit
8. Extension
NB Do Now 4/3/19
How can this masthead be made wider without changing pt size?
Is the font a good choice for the target audience and purpose of the Magazine?
NB Do Now 4/3/19
This masthead can be made wider without changing pt size by either changing tracking, horizontal scale, or both.
The HelloTimber font is better suited for a younger audience and for something like a children's book cover.
NB Do Now
Should you use Point Type or Paragraph Type for your Masthead? Explain your answer.
NB Do Now
Use Point Type for your Masthead because it is just a single word or line of text. If there is a second line of text, that can be a second line of point type.
Do Now
1. Log In and open your Magazine Cover File.
2. Open your image size window (Image > Image Size)
NYC Visual Arts Benchmarks
• Art Making
• Developing Art Literacy
• Making Connections Through Visual Arts
• Community and Cultural Resources
• Exploring Careers and Lifelong Learning
Differentiation / Lesson Extension
...Students with different abilities can seek assistance from teacher, paraprofessional, or another student
...The students who finish early can ask a classmate if they need help or review
NYC VISUAL ARTS BENCHMARKS
• Developing Art Literacy
• Community and Cultural Resources
• Exploring Careers and Lifelong Learning