Progression (Front Cover)

This the picture i chose for my front cover. I made him pose like that because I wanted to photoshop smoke coming out of his mouth. The reason why I made him a wear a t-shirt was because I also wanted to photoshop tattoos on his arms, which appeals more to a HIP HOP magazines. I got the idea from looking at other Hip Hop magazines. On almost every front cover there is a male artist with tattoos on his upper body.













Here i have cropped out the artist and added a black/grey background which matches the T-shirt he is wearing. I also made his arms bigger and air-brushed his face.

As you can see I photoshoped smoke onto the picture. I took a picture of a friend smoking and  cropped out the smoke which was time consuming.





















This is the final modification to the picture itself where I photoshoped tattoos onto his arms. I found some pictures of tattoos and cropped them out using the lasso tool and then finally faded the tattoos so they look real.

Name for my magazine

I have decided to call my Hip Hop magazine " BEATZ". It is a very unique magazine name which tells the audience without even opening the magazine that it is a Hip Hop/Rap magazine. Furthermore, almost every rapper raps about the streets which is why i chose that font because it has a city at the bottom of the writing, this is why i chose  BEATZ as my magazine name. The term BEAT encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental of hip hop music. It shows the connection between the streets and Hip hop music. In addition, it is a catchy name and easy to remember.