Production Update Week 2

This week I did some final touches to my front cover that I thought would improve the overall look of the cover. I wanted to do the final touches and then begin my double page spread to ensure that I would have time at the end to go back over both products and make very final adjustments.

At the beginning of the week I did my front cover. I thought that there were too many blank spaces around the cover and therefore to solve this I added an extra sell line. I think this filled up the cover well and ensured that there were no empty spaces around. I did not face any problems whilst doing this as it was using the same skills as I had done last week.

A problem that arose with my front cover was that the sell lines did not stand out well enough and this meant that some of them could not be read easily. This is especially an issue with my main sell line as it slightly covers up some of the image. This made it particularly difficult to read. In order to solve this problem I placed some effects upon the text to make it stand out. The effects that I used were the bevel and emboss and the drop shadow effects. This was very useful to me as I had previously not used this tool and so this ensured that I was making progress with my skills on Photoshop. This could also help me in the future if I need any other text to stand out.

The last final touch I made to the front cover before moving on to my double page spread was the price. I thought that it previously looked unproffessional and did not really look like it had a definite place on the front cover. To solve this I placed it into the very corner of the front cover so that it was not a fully formed circle. I think this look much more proffessional and had more of a likeness to real life products.