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Refined Magazine Cover

Since this is the final task I wanted everything to be perfect so I couldn't help but go over my magazine cover again and make a few refinements.

The first thing I felt could be improved was the main cover line being moved a little further down to provide a sharper juxtaposition to the other cover lines. So I selected all the relevant textual layers and the layer with the brush stroke and moved it further down with the help of the move tool.


The next thing I wanted to improve was the leading of the description of the main cover line. I increased the leading to 14 and extended the text box slightly horizontally so it wouldn't look like a separate element from the title.


I now feel content with my magazine cover looking like this:




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