Creating my Masthead

For my masthead we came up with a few ideas, these are as follows

Simply Pop

Poppers

Total Pop

I chose to use the name Poppers as it represented my target audiences better through the representation stereotypes. For example young people are meant to be rebellious and the Poppers is the name of a drug, which connotes rebellion.

My first try for a masthead is as follows:

This is how I made this:

I started off by adding a black and white gradient onto the background layer.

Then I used the Filter>Distort>Wave tool to make the pattern shown above.

I used the gradient tool agin to change the colour to this.

 To get to this stage I used the vertical flip tool, changed the opacity and then used the blur tool to get the affect see above.

 I got to this stage by adding a gradient to the top of the screen and then I used the distort wave tool to get the wave effect. Then I merge the layers down and scaled them down to this size.

I got to this stage by adding an overlay on the stage above and then I added a thin rectangle and used the distort wave tool to get the electric wave effect shown above. 

I got to this final stage by typing Poppers over the background in the picture above and then used the magic wand tool to select each letter and copied them and pasted them to get the effect shown.

I chose not to use this because the colours didn't look right on the sky blue background as they looked too false and it didn't stand out as a background.

I chose to use this masthead as it was simple and the white went well the the colour pallet used on the rest of the cover