My Preliminary Task - FRONT COVER

This is my preliminary front cover, which I was very pleased with, despite not having access to the photoshop facilities as much as I would have liked to. I took this picture myself managing to make me be in it as well as the other subject. This meant that it was a close enough photo for my to use without having to loose any pixels by zooming.

The framing of the picture with the tree and the faces bleeding into the edge meant that there was no white spaces to fill and the text just needed to sit on top.

The dark colour of the photo meant I had to use text font and colour that stood out. This was probably the biggest weakness I had with my cover, as I dont think I chose a bold enough font design to truely make it stand out and the end result was a front cover that looked slightly drab.

However, my biggest strength was getting the balance of picture to text right, which meant that the cover had a certain asymetrical neatness, with one side taken up by photo and the other by text.

Not having photoshop meant that I made the whole cover on word, which had positives and negatives. It meant that I could easily move text around on top of the picture and add in text boxes and shapes, which made the whole porcess simpler. However, I could have improved the pictures quality on photoshop and I would have had less trouble with resizing the photo and page.