+Real Version  My Version 

I was tasked to use ‘In Design’ to try and copy a professional front cover of a Music Magazine and to the best of my ability to get it completely the same.

Three things that went well for me were:

• The colouring of the text, I got the correct shade of pink. -This is the video I used to help me figure out what to do correctly.
• I managed to cut the image out and get it onto my cover, this means that I had the correct layers and therefore could place all of the text and other things onto the cover in the right places in the right colours.
• The sizing of text/ Distances, for example at the top where it says ‘4 OF 10 SPECIAL EDITION COVERS’ looks almost identical to the real version. This shows that I got the layout correct but I did forget to underline the writing which is a negative but not massively important.  I used this video help me achieve this.

Three things that could of gone better:

• The size of the image, the image I have here is very wide and does not fit the page to scale like the real version, I could use a video to help improve this the fact that the image is to big means that it affected my cover as the layout was messed up, for example iI had to move the bottom left writing down as it was not visible on the image at first, so I either needed to move the text on change the colour.
• Use more accurate fonts. I could take my time and explore a wider range of fonts so i can correct this error in the future. Foe example the bold text in the center reading ‘RIHANNA’ is the wrong font this means that it takes some of the professionalism away and the fact that this particular text is in the middle of cover means our attention is bought towards it so it should be correct. The font I used is too close together and bubbly where as it needs to be more spaced and bold. The text is also shorter than the original version.
• Make sure I fill in the black gradients in the background, to improve this again I could watch a video tutorial. If I done the gradients properly then it would help the colour pallets to stand out more , as I did not do the gradients I feel that my cover looks plain in specific areas.

In future I will use all of my new learnt skills and hopefully more to create a professional and aesthetically pleasing cover for if I ever need it in my life for given tasks. I can also learn from my mistakes and make sure I do them better next time.