How to design magazine cover with pictures

How to show a very good photo? It's simple, keep it clear, and all irrelevant elements don't appear on the page. Atmosphere Photography Club publishes its own monthly magazine to enhance the influence of the club. Therefore, they hope that the visual effect of the magazine can appear more professional to cater to a wider audience. Ambient is a magazine printed by its own large laser printer, which also means that the printing quality is quite high, and it can be output with full frame and no border. The layout is mainly based on pictures, supplemented by words. This magazine has a good name, good photos and a few words, but the design on it is too noisy. There are so many complicated elements on the page that you can't pay attention to the photos! Kodak yellow works well if used in a small area, but it is too eye-catching here. The name of the magazine uses bold and all-capital letters, with stroke effect and shadow, which runs counter to the meaning conveyed by the word "environment". Photos, floating effects and bordered designs, coupled with those elegant fonts, make the whole layout look too artificial and unreal. Let's put aside these trivial things and let the picture become the leading role directly. There are too many unnecessary details on the cover of Ambient magazine, which is not only dazzling, but also not conducive to conveying information. Stroke and shadow Stroke and shadow effect are a double-edged sword. Carelessness can lead to tragedy. In our imagination, these effects should be a pleasing decoration, which will make the elements appear more neat and make the text more prominent. But in the initial design, our eyes could not feel this pleasing to the eye. Compared with a simple and intuitive margin design, when we look at the original design, the eyes "cross" three discontinuous areas and three boundary lines, plus shadows and three colors. There are also letters (above right), and there are many angular areas that block our view. Bottom line: the layout is crowded and scattered. Inconsistent fonts: Inconsistent fonts-large and inappropriate magazine titles and artificial flower titles are put together, making the whole page look noisy. The shape of the negative space area of the text shown in the above picture allows us to see more clearly some trivial and meaningless depressions and prominent small elements formed in them. The title is in the font of Apple Chancery, which gives people a dazzling and exaggerated feeling. This font is common in some invitations, declarations and private documents. The problem is that this font is too active, not serious at all, the lines like pens float at will, and the shapes of the corners are strange (see the picture below), which makes the words unable to form a sense of rhythm. Together, these two fonts will only make the reader's eyes unbearable. Simplification: The transformation begins with cleaning up these unrelated elements. Simple, quiet and beautiful: clean up all kinds of idle people we just mentioned! Step 1: throw away the font; Step 2: Remove colors and shadows; Step 3: See the picture below, remove the white edge and put the picture down to the edge. At this time, two areas were still formed, and the picture was no longer "placed" on the white background, and we began to notice the beauty of the picture. Choose colors: Choosing colors in different areas of the photo will form different visual senses. Design Name: Use a simple font to echo a simple layout. As a classic font, Helvetica Neue Ultra Light conveys both empty inspiration and exquisiteness. Adjust the text: In order to reduce the "sound" of the whole page and present an elegant visual sense, we use the Helvetica font series on the cover of the whole magazine. The text recedes and the photo becomes the protagonist. In the layout of the original design, the text is simply put up and down, lacking detailed design. Anyone can typeset the original text, align left here and right there, and then indent individually. This kind of text typesetting only plays the role of conveying information and is not attractive. Through careful arrangement of words, we can make words convey a sense of beauty, elegance and authority. In the picture below, the opening characters all use the same size, only the difference in thickness, and the typesetting is aligned in the middle, like the design of the film credits. The length of the text will change with the change of the content. The whole text area is very interesting, and each issue gives people a different feeling.