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The inspiration of my graphic design project came from video games, since I’ve been playing my whole life, I created a question for my project are video games bad? I decided to do a magazine type of cover to further my topic. The first part I did was to create an outline on how I wanted the cover to be. For my background I decided on a video game background to give the cover a video game feel. The inspiration to do a video type of background was from one of my favorite magazines called PC Gamer which uses video game characters as their main attention of their magazine cover.

 The next thing I did was to create the main title of my cover, I wanted the title to be the biggest and the first thing you see so I used a font, I think looks like a video game type of font which adds to the video game feel and made the text a large 3d shape to make the title look more professional and awesome looking.

 Then I created a banner showing pros vs cons with a page marker to make it look like a magazine look. This is one of my weakness I thought was wrong with the cover and couldn’t find another way to fill in that blank space.

 The last part of my cover was finding video game characters from free-to-remix license images to put on my cover, since I am not good at creating my own video game characters. I enjoyed creating a video game style of magazine and learned new ways about photoshop from a whole new perspective.

The feedback from my peers about my project opened me new to things to make my project better than I ever thought of. I thought my project was finished and didn’t think there wasn’t any more ways to improve it. The feedback I have got was from many different viewpoints from changing the title to a neutral idea rather than a one-sided, biased title. Thanks to my peers I changed the title to “how do video games affect you”. The next thing I was recommended was adding more diverse images from people playing games rather than just controllers and characters. 

I used all of these feedback responses to improve my graphic design project and now I think the cover magazine is now complete and I am pleased on what I learn about photoshop to create a cover for a magazine.

Kun, Angel. “video game 8 bit”. pixabay.com, Aug 27, 2013, https://pixabay.com/illustrations/video-game-8-bit-old-school-retro-175621/

perfect, pixel. “video game background”. pixabay.com, May 20, 2016, https://pixabay.com/illustrations/video-game-background-1405076/

openclipart-vectors. ” jelly man”. pixabay.com. Feb 1,2017,https://pixabay.com/vectors/character-jelly-jelly-man-sprites-2029811/

Clker-free. “King Prince Clown”. pixabay.com. April 18, 2012.https://pixabay.com/vectors/king-prince-crown-cartoon-royal-37240/