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Have you got an image on your Computer that you keep looking at and thinking "I'd love to see that as a cover of a magazine"... Well, here's your chance. Well - maybe not a Real magazine, but the ultimate in "vanity publishing" - Design your own magazine cover, and enter it to this for-fun competiton...
Grab one of your favourite images, think what kind of Magazine it'd work with, dream up a Title for a new Magazine in that particular Genre and go to town in your favourite editing software.
For Example, here's a "spoof" magazine cover I created a couple of years ago, as an alternative to a "good luck with your new business" greetings card, when a friend started his new Landscaping and Gardening company - "Mr Greenfingers"
Parodies of existing magazines are fine, but please don't directly copy other magazine's logos, names or artwork... there's still plenty of scope though (think "Vague" magazine or "Amish Photographer"...) Oh - and keep it clean and work-safe please, no Playboy (or worse) spoofs...
OR, you could just come up with something entirely different... who knows, maybe a magazine publisher may see this thread and come knocking at your door with a publishing deal.
The Technical Bit...
Entries should be in Portrait Orientation, and to be in-keeping with typical magazine sizing, either A4 (210x297mm) or large octavo (275x210mm) in shape - which would translate to a file dimensions of 1200x848px or 1200x916. Please keep to a maximum longest side of 1200px.
Submissions to be made in a separate entries thread (LINK HERE)
One Submission per member only please. Maximum of THREE entries per member please..
Competition will be open for entries from 12:01am 7th March 2015 for 30 days, at which point (well - 23:59pm on the 6th April) we'll close the entries and run a poll to decide the winning entry.
No Prizes for this one I'm afraid - it's just for fun - though we MAY be able to bribe @Marcel to come up with a "custom tag" for the winner...
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, or discuss the competition in this thread.
Grab one of your favourite images, think what kind of Magazine it'd work with, dream up a Title for a new Magazine in that particular Genre and go to town in your favourite editing software.
For Example, here's a "spoof" magazine cover I created a couple of years ago, as an alternative to a "good luck with your new business" greetings card, when a friend started his new Landscaping and Gardening company - "Mr Greenfingers"
Parodies of existing magazines are fine, but please don't directly copy other magazine's logos, names or artwork... there's still plenty of scope though (think "Vague" magazine or "Amish Photographer"...) Oh - and keep it clean and work-safe please, no Playboy (or worse) spoofs...
OR, you could just come up with something entirely different... who knows, maybe a magazine publisher may see this thread and come knocking at your door with a publishing deal.
The Technical Bit...
Entries should be in Portrait Orientation, and to be in-keeping with typical magazine sizing, either A4 (210x297mm) or large octavo (275x210mm) in shape - which would translate to a file dimensions of 1200x848px or 1200x916. Please keep to a maximum longest side of 1200px.
Submissions to be made in a separate entries thread (LINK HERE)
Competition will be open for entries from 12:01am 7th March 2015 for 30 days, at which point (well - 23:59pm on the 6th April) we'll close the entries and run a poll to decide the winning entry.
No Prizes for this one I'm afraid - it's just for fun - though we MAY be able to bribe @Marcel to come up with a "custom tag" for the winner...
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, or discuss the competition in this thread.
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