Drafting and Planning: NME Creative Task

To create this magazine cover I used paint.net. During this creative task I learnt how to bring an image (the cover star) in front of the masthead by using the magic wand. I also learnt how to structure a magazine and within this I learnt how to make Reznor's face the center of attention. By using paint.net I discovered more about importing images into new layers. After using paint.net I imported the image into publisher and added two cover lines, a pug, a secondary image, bar code, price and dateline.I think it is ideal to use publisher and paint.net when creating a magazine cover because it it easier to add layers and remove backgrounds and also add text, images and other conventions.
I looked at a previous post where I analysed Mojo magazine to help me place codes & conventions carefully on this NME creative task, which helped me know what codes & conventions went where and why.
On this task I realised I did not have enough cover lines generally, I only have one other besides the main cover line.
In the future, for my music magazine this task would be extremely helpful to refer back to as I learnt how to do different things in this task. This will help me place my cover star over the masthead, add secondary images, text and barcodes with prices and dates. I feel that by looking back at this task I will be able to create a more realistic music magazine.