
Analyze great magazine covers to learn masthead, cover lines, puff, and skyline, then edit the main image in Photoshop, design the title in Illustrator, and assemble the cover in InDesign.
Discover how masthead design establishes a magazine's identity through font, color, and placement. Learn how taglines, skylines, date lines, and pugs influence audience appeal.
Discover how to design compelling magazine covers by balancing the main image, the main cover line or splash, anchorage text, and supporting cover lines with clear negative space and frames.
Refine subject selection and create precise layer masks with quick mask and brush tools, save masked photos as Photoshop files (Unsplash), and prepare these images for Illustrator titles and graphics.
Design a magazine title in Illustrator by duplicating letters, aligning and spacing with distribution and kerning, and preparing artboards for import into InDesign, then save as a separate file.
Organize a messy Illustrator layers panel by grouping arrows, dots, circles, and lines, renaming groups, and using selection tools and the magic wand for an efficient design workflow.
Create an A4 portrait InDesign document with 15 mm margins, place and align a cover photo, and manage layers to layer a title and shapes between the image and masking.
Format the cover lines in InDesign by creating and styling text frames for the tagline, dateline, and date line, and align them with the main title using Futura.
Want to design effective and unique Magazine Covers? Learn about the process, theory, techniques and test your skills by working on the class project!
Join Martin Perhiniak (Graphic Designer and Adobe Certified Instructor) and learn his workflow and best practices he developed over 20 years working as a creative professional for clients like BBC, Mattel, IKEA, Google, Pixar, Adobe.
In this class you'll learn:
Creating professional magazine covers for all kinds of clients/businesses
The complete magazine cover design workflow
Important Print Design terms you need to know
Editing photos with Adobe Photoshop and preparing them for the cover
Creating the masthead and vector elements in Adobe Illustrator
Putting everything together in Adobe InDesign
Using Styles in Adobe InDesign to effectively format main and supporting cover lines
Who this class is for?
Anyone planning to become a graphic designer
Creatives aiming to improve their technical skills and understanding of design theory
Anyone specialising in Editorial Design
You don't need to be a creative professional to take the class
What you will need?
Adobe Creative Cloud
Desire to make something awesome
Even if you’re new to designing covers or Adobe applications, you’ll find the simple and effective techniques discussed in this course easy to use and apply to your work!