Creating the magazine advert for the album

Here are the stages which I went trough to create my magazine advert

To start off I created an A4 page and added a simple black and white gradient to work with. I then added the title to the top of the advert.

Here I have added the songs which are included on the CD and are stated on the Cd's back cover so the viewers can see whether they like the music or not.

Here I have added some photo of the DJ equipment used to play and mix music as there is a photo of a stylus on a turntable and the knobs/ buttons on the mixer.

For the next stage and to give viewers something to relate to when looking for the CD I added the same image from the front cover. I then gave it the glowing edges effect which makes it look a lot darker and brings the colours out.

Now that I have added everything i went back to the background and decided to use a simple picture of my guitars pickups to represent music. I then added the glowing edges effect to this to match the image of the artist so they would blend nicely.