Tips For Making Magazine Layout

I know everyone are working hard to complete the magazine project recently, and it is not so easy to come up with ideas from the magazine cover design and format. So today, I'm going to tell everyone some tips and the software that can help you deal with your layout design quickly.

1.Take Good Pictures For The Magazine

What's the definition of a good picture for the magazine cover? It's mean to take pictures that are focus on one topic only. Therefore, try to remove other things away and keep only the dish you want to take picture on the table. This will help to save enough space for the title and subtitles, otherwise your cover page will look like a mess after you adding words on it.

Don't use this kind of photos for cover design because they are messy and hard to read

Beside keeping your photos clean and simple, color contrast is also an important element in photography. The food's and the background's colors play an important role in the layout since high color contrast not only can highlight the dish but also provide better readability.

Color contrast make the color of the cake richer and the subtitles better readability

2.Using Pinterest to save ideas

To design a magazine layout, first of all, you need to decide and 
unify the style of your magazine. In this case, all you need is Pinterest. It's a web that provides platform allowing users to upload release their pictures, designs or art works. If you never heard of Pinterest before, take a look at it here. 

3. Search For A Specific Term

Search for a specific term can help you find for the information faster and easier on Pinterest. This is the page you will see if you search for "food magazine" :

Click on a certain one and it will show you how a professional designs a magazine layout from the cover, content, article to the back cover page.

There are thousands of different layout styles in the Pinterest's gallery so you can start the magazine design by choosing the one which you like the most and following its layout.

3. Find a graphics editor (e.g. Photoshop)

You need a good graphics editor to make a good magazine. In my opinion, I suggest using Photoshop Adobe. First of all, you don't need to buy or download it, there is an online Photoshop editor which you can find on the internet here. Second, since it's widely used around the world, there are a lot of photoshop tutorials on the internet you can search for, so I sure it will not be a big problem to use it.

So these are some tips I have learned from my own experience. Thanks for reading. I hope it will be helpful to you!