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Design a Magazine Cover In Photoshop

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In this tutorial we’ll be designing a Fashion magazine cover using Photoshop. We’ll use an image of my good friend, and  fashion blogger Cheryl Van Den Berg.

We’ll use the help of a free plugin called GuideGuide to easily set up our document’s guides. These guides will give you a visual representation of the bleed areas, and print safe areas, as well as a grid to align the Magazine blurbs and headlines.

I’ll also show you some nifty techniques to take your magazine cover to the next level!

If you’re into fashion or want to thank Cheryl for letting us use her image, go to her blog Oh To Be A Muse. Or you can check out her Facebook page and let her know you found her through PTC!

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Fashion Magazine Cover

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  1. Coreen says

    January 16, 2013 at 11:29 am

    The video does not play for how to make a magazine cover.

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      January 16, 2013 at 11:34 am

      Coreen,

      Just checked it. It plays fine for me.

      You can try the YouTube page for it and see if that works for you.

      http://youtu.be/LDqFA6JnpvM

      Hope it works for you!

      Reply
  2. Rosemary says

    January 16, 2013 at 5:42 pm

    Thank you….totally awesome. You crammed so much info in. Great.

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      January 16, 2013 at 8:07 pm

      You’re welcome!
      Glad you liked it Rosemary!

      Reply
  3. ululf01 says

    February 12, 2013 at 12:19 am

    I thank you for sharing this tutorial

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      February 28, 2013 at 10:20 am

      No problem! Thanks for watching!

      Reply
  4. C. Diane says

    March 6, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Hi PTC,
    Thank you for this awesome tutorial!! I have always wanted to do something like this. But haven’t got a chance to do it yet. I was wondering if by the way do you do any cheat sheet so I can go step by step. I am no hearing person but can follow the instruction, the problem is I have to stop each setting to get what it has to go through. If you do happen to have the readable instruction and can you please email me so I can keep this as my information. I beleive one of my club with would like for me to do something with the cover page.
    That will impress them of how the cover will make for our “Deaf Club”. After I create the cover and will let ya know. That amaze me after I found this from the facebook. I enjoy everything you do.

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      March 6, 2013 at 6:24 pm

      Thanks for the comment C.Diane!

      Unfortunately at the moment I do not have any writing guides. I will keep you posted as I am planning on having a written post along with all my tutorials in the future.

      Reply
  5. Mike says

    January 15, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    I wanted to get a quick overview of the basics of designing a magazine cover in photoshop.

    This provided that overview.

    Other details which were not easily and quickly gotten online was information pertaining to sizing of the cover page. 8.5 x 11, 3 x 4 ratio, or as you used, 8.25 x 11.25? You briefly touched upon this by mentioning the dpi from 300 to 150. But if you could add extra details on sizing conventions for the overall cover page reserving output for print and/or pdf publication. Also, how would you approach designing coverpages using InDesign, does any of this workflow pass over to InDesign – Or have you produced an InDesign video illustration basic magazine template designing.

    Lastly, the guideguide software is no longer free, I believe it is now $10.00. Just FYI.

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    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      March 9, 2016 at 9:05 am

      Mike,

      In terms of sizing it all depends and what you are doing. And the size that your require for a print (If you are printing)

      The workflow would not really pass over into InDesign unfortunately, and I don’t have any videos on InDesign.

      Yeah, it looks like GuideGuide is no longer free. But if you have the latest version of Photoshop then you can use the “New Guides Layout” under the View menu. It does pretty much the same thing.

      Reply
      • Tiffany says

        March 22, 2017 at 10:36 pm

        I used the Guideguide free trial and it worked just fine for this project

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        • Photoshop Training Channel says

          April 23, 2017 at 3:09 pm

          Cool! With Photoshop CC, you can instead use the “New Guide” option under the “View” menu.

          Reply
  6. vonachii says

    April 3, 2016 at 6:32 am

    hi thx for this tutorial , i enjoy it , mmm , sorry but this is the 1st time for me for this kind of design so i dont know witch form i should save it , its gif or png or what ??

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      April 20, 2016 at 11:05 pm

      It depends. What are you using the file for? I would say PNG or JPG. But again, it depends.

      Reply
  7. Tiffany says

    March 22, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    This tutorial is AWESOME. I followed all your steps and created an amazing project of my own for my intro to photoshop class. I also took your advice and thanked model Cheryl on her Facebook page and she replied right away. Not only is she a beautiful model, she is also a friendly and sweet person. A+++++++

    Reply
    • Photoshop Training Channel says

      April 23, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      Awesome! Thanks, Tiffany!

      Reply

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