As well as completing the first magazine advertisement i also made two others.

I started off with a plain black background and used the image of the guitar that i used for my CD cover. I made it bigger and rotated it. This is now the main background image to my CD advertisement. I also changed the image to black and white, using the black and white tool, i think this makes the advertisement look less amateur and it draws the readers attention in.

I then wanted to include the CD background image some more, so i decided to use a brick pattern on the guitar, to do this i used my own photograph of a wall and laying it on top of the guitar. I lowered the opacity and used to eraser tool to erase the bits i don’t need. Now the magazine advertisement reflects the album cover, and i feel this works really well.

I then used the same font as on the album cover to add the bands name. I used a grey outer glow to make the name stand out, as this is what would catch the readers attention. I placed it at the top because this is where the reader will first look. I also really like the black and white colour scheme.

I added the album title ‘Raw Words’ underneath the band name using the same amount of outerglow as i did in the band name. I really like the way the text is overlapping the guitar neck, i feel this adds layers to the advertisement.

I used a very plain font for ‘OUT NOW’ this is so the advertisement doesn’t look to busy with very interesting fonts everywhere. I placed ‘OUT NOW’ at the bottom, because by this point it has already caught the readers attention and they will have read all the way to the bottom by then anyway.

I decided to once again use quotes as this is what each magazine advertisement in my research involved. I made the quotes up and placed them underneath the album title near the top of the page. I used a black outer glow on all 3 of the quotes so you could see these over the top of the guitar.

I added an information section about the album stating what tracks are included, ths saves the reader some time they would have took to research about the release.

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