Progress of Front Cover 14/4/16

After re-evaluating my draft front cover, I decided to swap around some fonts, add a grey gradient background and re-position a few of the frames. I believe this layout and background will look better from afar as the gradient makes the writing more eye catching and more visually pleasing overall. As you can see, I have kept the writing black as not to take attention away from the main image. 

I created the gradient by drawing a large rectangular frame, selecting the window tab, clicking on gradient and altering the colours until I was happy with the shade of grey. I created a bar code on the photo shop programme by drawing a 1 by 1 selection bar and filling it with monochromatic 'noise'. I have left a large blank border around the outside of the page as any writing that overlaps the outer window will be cut off. 

As you can see, there isn't much space for my image but this is because I would like some of writing to overlap the image. Due to the fact that the image is a medium close-up shot, Clayton's face should fit neatly within the space I have left and his body should be the main piece covered by the text. I asked my target audience if they thought the front cover was attractive at this stage without the image and the consensus was that it was very pleasing to the eye. This has given me confidence in thinking it will look even more effective with the photoshopped image in place.