Magazine Covers?

[Jon Foster]

How does everyone do their magazine covers? Where do you get the fonts etc. Or does everyone just scan a magazine and replace the picture with their own?

Jon.

[TSEE]

I tried doing some about a year ago actually for my BIL & SILs wedding. The photo program I had at the time "Photo Explosion" already have templets in its program to whip up these magazine covers, everything from Baby Magazine, People to Sports Illustrated, fonts and all already in. Just change the background photo and enter whatever text you want on the sides as the "headline news".
I could dig the CD up if you wanted to see what I got, not that they're spectacular but then you'll see the templet at least. ;o)
I'd say you can probably do it pretty easily yourself tho. Just find a font that matches the magazine you're thinking about imitating and put it overtop, do a barcode at the bottom corner and enter "headline news" on the sides. That's a magazine cover. LOL

[Jon Foster]

Fonts are the one thing I can't seem to find. It would be nice to run across a few of the common fonts we see on magazines.

Jon.

[Zepher]

We played around with doing magazine cover style photos back in 99-2000 but never really ran with it since we were charging only $20 and I sometimes it would take me 20-30 minutes to do one if we had issues with the layout and image. it wasn't worth my time to do them. We're thinking about doing them again, just charging more, maybe $35 for an 8x10. i'll see if I can find any examples we did. I know I have them on the office machine but not sure if I have them here at home.

If you have have any desktop publishing program or word processor program, they usually come with a bunch of fonts. i've got like 885 fonts on my machine at home and I haven't loaded any separate font programs, these just came with MS Office and a few other programs I have.

[Bu Yao]

Ad agency and designer use professional program call QuarkXpress. Import picture to Quark, then overlay typeface. Quark give hundreds of typeface and font.