Magazine Cover Final Work-day. Assigned 3/10, due 3/24 - Minor (cover 1) and MAJOR (cover 2)

Your Magazine Cover MUST include the following:

You will need to complete the following:

A. Magazine name

Think carefully about the font you use

You may not use the name of a real magazine (except on accident) - so please get creative!!

B. At least three and up to 6-7 teasers (Cover lines/headlines) for secondary stories. (Be creative and write ones that go with your magazine title).

C. Price

D. Date

E. Bar Code

Think about:

Scale - how big things are
Proportion - how big things are in relationship to others
Colors - be selective, 3 or 4 colors max, pull some colors from the images themselves
Placement of all elements (where should those things go) - should the price be located right in the middle of the image? Where do bar codes go and how big should they be? Dates? Use your sample images.
Font readability - pick good, legible fonts
Creativity - did you make text work better by creating multiple boxes for a single headline? Do you pick a font package? How well did you match your image up with your title and teasers (cover lines/headlines) and other elements?
Is it smart to put a box around any text? Look at examples

I should have two of them from you. ONE OF THEM must have a cutout or a text overlap. 

Here is how you turn them in. You must follow these directions carefully and do this correctly.

When you have a cover done, please follow the instructions listed below to turn your project in. FOLLOW THEM SPECIFICALLY AND EXACTLY. It may look complex and it isn't simple, but if you follow them carefully you will need no help from me.

You must have your cover open in InDesign (NOT photoshop)

>File>Adobe PDF presets>Smallest File Size

>Rename your magazine cover as follows: Last name_first name_magazine cover_period #

Make sure to save it in your folder in YOUR DRIVE.

>Click export (if any messages come up about outside the clipping area or anything else like that during the .pdf creation process, click okay)

Move the file to your Google Drive. Click Share. Make it sharable so that ANYONE WITH THE LINK CAN VIEW). Copy the link and put it on your Google Site, on a new subpage called Magazine Covers, as a clickable link. I MUST see these full size. Sharing is the biggest obstacle - make sure you get it right.

I would like you to convert these to .PNG files and put those on your Google Site as well. To do this you have to convert the .pdf into a .PNG file. 

1. Open Photoshop
2. Open the .pdf of your magazine cover (NOT the .indd, it won't work)
3. When the .pdf converter pop-up box appears, click okay
4. >File>Save as
5. Change the format into .PNG
6. Click save
7. Make sure you save it at the highest file size
8. If you get any other pop-up boxes, click okay 

9. Post it on your Google Site on the same page where the clickable links live. You can put the link above or below the image it goes with. Make sure to grab the corner of the image and make it as big as you can. Do this proportionally please!!