mag cover

[waycool]

i want to make a joke to a friend and put his picture on the cover of a mag.
i want to built the cover all by myself.
what software should i use??
thanks

[yarusskii]

If you don't know how to make it, I doubt that you'll make anything that looks like an actual cover)
Photoshop and/or illustrator is what you need. :)

[budafist]

Photoshop would be good, but instead of spending a 40+ hours learning how to use it and $600 to buy it, why don't you photocopy the mag cover, print out your friend's pic and do a collage mock up. Then photocopy the whole thing together so it's all on 1 piece of paper. That way you will save money and time!

[tZ]

I take my magical wand and hover it a few times over the paper and there it is. You really should try it- saves a lot of time and money. Software… who needs that?- I mean really!

[mchilly]

I would suggest to use Photoshop, We've done that before when my boss go back to denmark as a farewell gift we edited her photo in photoshop make it look funny and then printed it in her mug which has a caption "Miss Boss" :D

[SurfPark]

If you don't have Photoshop already, Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net/) and GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) are free bitmap editing programs that work in a similar fashion.

[waycool]

thanks a lot here's where i am right now with photoshop

[PrintDriver]

It's got Photoshop newb written all over it but I gotta say, not bad, for a beginner. I'm not sure about script fonts for a Goalie zine though.

Holl?

[waycool]

Of course it's newb,before this i did have zero experience with photshop(by the way this is a copie of goalie's world cover)
Do you have any sugestion for the font?

[tZ]

Thats a lot of fonts.

Do you have any sugestion for the font?

yes… less.

[waycool]

lol!! good one
go there

http://www.goaliesworld.com/

[Fantômas]

you have a spelling error on your cover. :p

[tZ]

So is your goal to mimic poor design?

I'm not getting what your say with directing me that link…

In all honesty you should only include one or two contrasting faces not 8 or 9 like you have. Even those mag covers don't have 8 or 9 fonts.

I might have misinterpreted what you are saying though so correct me if I'm wrong.

[Fantômas]

you have a spelling error on your cover. :p

Sorry. Make that 1 spelling error and 1 grammatical error. ;)

[waycool]

They have a lots of font and i'm prety close to their font exepct for the goalie and regional.

i dont mind speling eror we don't speake english too often and i dont tink it will be in store soon.

[waycool]

like i said before(did i?)it's for a joke and yes i try to be as close as possible from the goalies world mag cover.

But for me those font,as far as they are from the mags,were ok

[carter the artist]

Generally you have the mast head, and then a different font for the "call outs". Some 'zines will use different fonts on the call outs, but to look professional, I'd stick to one or two.

[morea]

as a general rule of thumb, you should not use more than 3 fonts in a design.

[carter the artist]

you know what tho, looking at the website, yours is good enough to pass the mustard.

[tZ]

lol

I'm curious though is it nine fonts? I think i counted nine but, could be off?

[Fantômas]

lol

I'm curious though is it nine fonts? I think i counted nine but, could be off?
now BE NICE! There's only 7 different fonts! (i think) :p

[waycool]

thanks a lot mine is now finish.prety close to the one i posted on first page(yes with 7 or 9 fonts)Next time if i do one seriously i'll follow your advice.

[Seapony]

Don't be too hard guys...that "Goalie's World" mag layout isn't exactly a great model to use, but he's trying to replicate it after all to pull off the joke...atrocious though it may originally be. So in that sense, uh...mission accomplished? ;)

Your friend will enjoy it at least.

:)

[SurfPark]

Don't use the "glow" feature. Please.

[waycool]

Right,there is less glow on the final version,but there is still too much for sensible heart....

My friend will receive it today i know he will laught a lot(can we say lal )

[CkretAjint]

More outter glows and drop shadows too... ;)

[onedarkangel_uk]

Just get some references. Look at some magazine covers, and see the fonts they use, how many, the layout etc. I am not saying copy them but its always good to work from references and having what you are aiming for in front of you.

[DesignVHL]

not bad for a newb...aside from using way too many fonts and scaling your image up (or is it just a blurry pic)....

you made me chuckle with the "no poster inside" text....i like that.

[tZ]

I think this was a just for a one time deal so I wouldn't look into it to heavily,lol.

[carter the artist]

HEllo people... some of these posts sound like you guys are telling this guy how to make a Good layout of a magazine cover. The problem is he isn't trying to do that. He's trying to replicate a poorly designed cover as a joke, like those photo booths that put you on the cover of popular magazines.

Sorry, but maybe i'm just being a bit sensitive today, but some posts are critiquing the pic as if to make it 'better', but in this sense of his goal, (wow a pun), he hit the mark pretty well.

so, yeah, i agree with seapony.

[onedarkangel_uk]

Just looked at the cover of Goalie's World. hahahahaha. You hit it spot on actually. Just a little in making the font bolder, like using Arial Bold.

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/9772/magcovergoaliesworldsk5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


If you look at this cover, the fonts are bold, no san serif stuff. And you got yourself an exact replica.

[tZ]

This person is not a designer.

This person obviously doesn't care so let the thread die in peace.

Its over,lol

[waycool]

i does'nt need to be a designer to apreciate poeple taking time trying to help me.