What is a magazine?
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three. Magazines can be distributed through the mail; through sales by newsstands, bookstores or other vendors; or through free distribution at selected pick up locations. – Wikipedia
In my opinion, a magazine is (or let’s say was for some of us) a method to get yourself informed about different subjects, read the latest gossips or just relax while reading.
Today, we will learn how to create a magazine cover in Adobe Photoshop.
Here’s a preview of what are going to create with the help of this tutorial over here on AREA 1.
Start by creating a new project, choose International Paper preset and then A4.
Next, let’s find the image we want to use as a front photo for our cover. Usually, this image is representing the most important subject in the magazine.
This is the image I’ve used: Love is ….
Bring your photo in Adobe Photoshop, scale it and leave around 0,5cm top, left and right margin.
Draw a rectangle above the picture, just as I did.
Now, it’s time to add the title, subtitle and so on; I’ve chosen “Young Love”.
Draw under the picture 3 rectangles, as I did. We’ll cover there 3 most important articles in the magazine. We will fill them with the name of the articles we’ve chosen and a few information beside and maybe a small picture.
That’s it! The result depends only on your imagination.
This is the last tutorial on this year, so I would like to say thanks to all visitors and subscribers and KEEP VISITING US! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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Written by: Mihai Opariuc | Visit Website
My name is Opariuc Mihai, I'm a graphic/web designer from Ploiesti, Romania and I'm the owner of AREA 1. I hope we can share a lot of information, tips&tricks and ideas through this website. Follow me on Twitter or add me as a friend on Facebook.
Since this is a magazine cover: aren’t you forgetting to include a bleed?
And wouldn’t this also be in CMYK?
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Great tutorial
you did amazing work on image, thank you very much for your excellent step by step instruction, I have tried same effects on my project and got appreciated by client..God Bless..have a prosperous career.
O__o i don’t give permissiot to this.
huh..
but it’s so funny
„younglove“ 
Great tutorial ! Thanks for sharing !