Friday, October 18, 2013

     In order to create my magazine cover, I looked at a lot of covers of other magazines and I also saved a lot of possible options for pictures on my own cover. I made sure I had one main image (and a couple of smaller ones), a masthead, bar code, etc. I also made sure that everything coordinated with each other and nothing looked like it didn't belong. I revolved all of it around the same topic and put all of the required things on it.



This helped me because I realized I wanted Arwen on the front

This kind of helped me decide how I want my cover to look
This sort of helped me with how to lay out my cover

This helped me with the placing of text

This inspired me to put Rivendell behind Arwen

This inspired me to have a landscape in the background

This gave me the idea to have a caption about Legolas and Gimli

This helped me in finding the right picture of Arwen

This also helped with Arwen

Gave me the idea to have a bag end floor plan

Also helped with Legolas and Gimli

Inspired the evenstar necklace idea

Morgul blade idea

Idea for Smaug story

Bar code


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

     In order to create my logo, I first looked at the requirements. Having done this, I decided that my logo should be rather simple and clean looking. I choose a turquoise color, light grey and dark blue (it pretty much looks like black). The first thing I did was find the diamond I that I wanted to be the central focus of the logo. I used the quick selection tool and removed the outside of it. Then, I used the magic wand tool to select all of the sections of it (I used shift when adding more sections). I then clicked on the paint tool, changed the RGB to the grey color I wanted, and painted the diamond. After that, I fond my sort of diamond shaped picture. I did the same things with the quick selection tool, magic wand tool, RGB and brush except I used the turquoise color and then placed it behind the diamond. I also changed the border of the diamond and the star to the dark blue. Finally, for the text, I used a fancy cursive text (in the grey color) for the "Pro" and then a normal text for "to" and combined them on the top left side of the logo. Then, at the bottom right, I wrote "shop" in the (grey) normal text. I did this all legally because there wasn't a watermark or copyright on any of the pictures I used, and I created the logo and text myself.