Magazine cover practice - InDesign

Practice Design:

This is a practice magazine cover using InDesign; I used a variety of tools to compose my magazine cover although many were basic controls. A number of layers have been used to create this design, with the first layer being an image saved from the internet, to incorporate this photo into my design I had to use the rectangle tool. The rectangle tool is a way of being able to place content onto the design, I shaped my rectangle into the appropriate size before going to file to place my image which was already saved as a Jpeg. The next step was to fit my photo to the size of my rectangle; this can be done in 2 ways;

1) Fit Content To Frame - this means my image would quite literally fill the space of the rectangle.

2) Fit Content Proportionally To Frame - this differs to fitting the content to the frame as the photo would not be stretched or miss-proportioned but would still be enlarged.

I used Fit Content To Frame Tool.

The next steps were easy! I used text boxes to create and style my text using a variety of different fonts, sizing, colours and spacing's, I also used shape work to incorporate stylistic features to my magazine design such as the rectangles which emphasise the text itself. Although there is not a lot of content on my practice magazine design, I still feel as if I have learnt the basic how to knowledge of InDesign and that my final practice outcome does portray my knowledge using the tools.