What It Takes to Design a Magazine Cover

magazine cover page

This time-lapse video from photographer Peter Belanger captures every step that’s involved in designing a cover page for the Macworld computer magazine from photographing the actual object (iPhone in this case), re-touching inside Photoshop until publication.

The cover is just one among the few hundred pages that form a print magazine so you can easily imagine the kind of effort (and costs) that are involved in designing the complete magazine.

Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/designing-magazine-cover/10930/

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Reader Comments

Interesting. Looks like they use Photoshop and later inDesign

And we feel its so easy ..

I never realised so much work went into it!

all that work on getting the shot and touching it up, only to have a barcode clip the image!!



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