This is my final front cover. As you can see I included a picture of the main focus of the magazine and who is going to be on the double page spread. I decided to ask the person in the image look crazy and a little bit out of the ordinary because the rocker sterotype is usaully of someone that likes to go out and cause havoc as well as being a bit 'rough around the edges'. I included a bar code to make the cover look more professional. As I was trying to make some changes to the cover I made the mistake of merging all the layers I was then unable to make any changes to the cover. If I was going to add some more to it I would make sure I added a couple more smaller images and included a few more pieces of information so that it looked more appealing to the reader. I would also spend more time trying to align all the text in the left hand third and I would of put some more information. I would try and edit the picture a bit more and maybe add some effects to make it look more professional, as appose to one picture beign place on the cover.

i took inspiration from the magazine Kerrang, as i know this is a well established rock magazine and that they have a large amount of readership. As you can see they alos used one dominant image that covered most of their front cover. However they also included some smaller images which i would of liked to include in mine but as i made the mistake of merging all my layers so i couldnt make an changes to my piece. As you can see the title of my magazine is similar to the title of Kerrang which is what i was intending to do because although i was trying to create new magazine, i wanted to try and keep similar to Kerrang because it is sucessful and i obviously want my magazine to be a sucess.