Acting Upon Feedback...

As the previous post shows, I got a set of feedback given to me to tell me how to improve my front cover. I took all of this on board and my front cover now looks like this:

On this post, I will give a short step by step on how I improved it and why I thought some changes were necessary. 

The first issue that was raised was that the date could not be visible as it faded in too much into the letter 'L.' I decided to fix this first as it was simple, I first went for a fairly visible grey but it was a bit too visible for my liking. 

I then opted for a slightly darker shade of grey which I preferred because although it was visible to the reader, it didn't look too distracting. 

I then zoomed out of the picture to check if this time it could be seen without the need to zoom in and I think that it was relatively clear.

My next issue was the fact that the masthead was a bit too close to the top edge edge of the magazine, I then placed it down by a little bit. This made the masthead to look more clear.

The next part I edited was the colour on the subtext because according to my feedback, it was harder to read compared to the rest of the text.

I then unintentionally edited the brightness and contrast of my image but it turned out to look fine and I didn't find the need to edit any further.

One other response I got was that the pink on the right looked like the magazine was leaning more towards the female demographic. However, the males that responded said that it didn't bother them too much and baring that in mind, I didn't change the colour scheme as the content of the magazine clearly looks like its going for a music vibe rather than fashion or other genre.

Before & After Feedback

Here is an image of the before and after of the feedback that I received - there aren't a lot of changes made, but the little fixes here make it look different.