My GQ Magazine

This is the remake of a GQ magazine on Quark in my media lessons. We have been intoduced to Quark as it is one of the best programs to ensure that our magazine will be produced at the highest level and that it looks as professional as possible. Quark is one of the programs- alongside Photoshop- that I will be using to produce a magazine of the highest standard I can possibly make in order to achieve the highest marks. This task was very useful for my magazine production as it allowed me to familiarise myself with some of the most essential features of Quark that I will need for my magazine and it has allowed me to truly analyse the features of the original GQ cover in order to make a believable replica. This is useful as it had made me more aware of the more intricate details of the front cover that I will need to take into account when producing my magazine front cover and it is allowing to make small plans in my head of how I want my magazine to turn out as I can use different features that I find most effective in my own magazine to make it as realistic and effective as possible. This is what the original cover of the GQ magazine looked like this:

I couldnt get my version perfectly the same as the original; firstly because I did not have access to the same software as the editors of the magazine so could not use the exact same tools to create my copy, but also I was not able to retrieve the original image that the editors used for the cover image so we had to find another one to use. This meant that I had to change some of the colours of the text so that all the text coud be seen and read clearly with little difficulty. However, apart from these few issues, I would say my copy of this GQ magazine front cover is quite good in terms of similarity and accuracy.
When producing this magazine I did not have to use photoshop to get rid of the background of the cover image as there was a tool on Quark that allowed me to do so. Thanks to Quark I was able to replace the background of the newly found cover image and replace it with a pale blue like on the original front cover.
I had to do this again with the GQ logo as I added it as a separate image. I had to delete the white background so it would blend nicely onto the magazine and would look professional.
For the rest of the cover, I used text box tools to add the text and change the colour of the text box to resemble the original cover.
I have found this task very useful in helping develop my understanding of magazine front covers in order to produce the most professional looking and highest marking magazine I can.