Masthead Design

Firstly I chose a simple, bold, font, like the font of 'Kerrang!' and 'NME'. I chose black as the colour of my font, to go well with the red and white on the rest of the page and also to look professional.

I then decided that I wanted to make the masthhead edgy to fit the rock genre. So I used the bevel, emboss and satin tools to do so. This created a subtle crackly effect and made the characters un-level.

Inspired by the masthead of Kerrang!, I then decided to create thin white lines through the masthead. I did this using the shape tool, and then used the eraser tool to get rid of any visible lines which were not running through the masthead.