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Mrs. Blueberry, Kansas City Age and Occupation in 06: 21, Full-time Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Full-time Student Engagement Date: September 10, 2005 Wedding Date: May 25, 2007 Venue: Wynbrick Center - a historic mansion in my hometown. About Me: We're having an intimate, 125-ish person wedding with a full-blown dessert reception. When I'm not obsessing over wedding stuff or studying for my BA in English, I'm usually playing with our two kitty cats, blogging, doing crafty things, or hanging out with Mr. Blueberry!
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Making The Cover

December 29th, 2006 @ 4:00 pm by Mrs. Blueberry

While lounging on my parents’ couch last week, taking advantage of the free room and board, tons of DVDs and amazing food, I was reading a copy of Time magazine and saw an ad for Making the Cover. It’s a free program that let’s you create your own magazine cover.

It’s really easy to use (although the site ran a bit slow for me–that might just be my new internet connection, though). I had to crop our photo so it was more-or-less square, as the program can’t crop on its own. But that’s easy to do in MS Paint:

1.Use the tool that looks like a rectangle made of dashes to outline the part of your photo you want to capture.
2.Choose Edit >>Cut, then choose File>>New. When it asks if you want to save changes to your original, click ‘no’ so it leaves your file intact.
3.On your new, blank ‘canvas’ Go to Tools>>Stretch/Skew, and on *both* the horizontal and vertical stretch, change the “100″ to “10″. Then close that tool.
4.Your blank canvas should now be tiny. Then choose Edit>>Paste, and your cropped image should appear.
5.Choose File>>Save As, and save the picture. Then upload it when you get to that step in the Making the Cover program.

I’m not pretending to be super computer savvy, so I don’t know that that’s the best method of image manipulation, but it works for me :).

Also, the site only offers a couple of pretty hokey headlines, so I just did mine without. But it would be cool if someone (who has PSP or Photoshop, maybe?) could do a transparent-background overlay of text, with a cute headline like “Couple of the Year.” I tried to do it in MS Paint, but the only way to add text in Paint is to have it on a solid, white background…not very polished looking for these purposes.

And here is my finished cover:

time.jpg

In short, the program could have definitely been a lot cooler, but since it’s free I can’t complain too much. You will need other skills to really personalize your project, though–adding text, or even the date.

Ideas for using this:
~Save-the-dates (with the date in the corner being your future wedding date, and info. on the reverse side)
~With a “Wedding of the Year” headline and the couple’s wedding photo, these could be cute thank-you postcards or follow-up cards
~Bachelor or bachelorette party invites

I hope this is useful to someone!

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8 Responses to “Making The Cover”

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K

Haha, that’s fun. When I was about 9 or 10, I went to Chicago to the American Girl store, and you could get your picture taken for the cover of the magazine, and I got one done….definately a neat souvenir.

 
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Miss Lime

I like the “not an official cover” disclaimer at the bottom.

They used to do this at Universal Studios, but not digitally, back in the day. My friend and I put ourserlves on ’seventeen’ once. We were maybe 10 or 11.

 
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nancy

That is great. I love the hats. This would make great save-the-dates or some other accessory.

 
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mileena

this remind’s me of fd’s magazine cover maker. it’s mainly a flickr tool (but now you can upload your own). you choose a picture and you can type in whatever text you want for the name of the magazine, story titles, etc.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php

here’s a whole bunch of examples: http://flickr.com/search/groups/?q=magazine&w=27237423%40N00&m=pool

 
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Anita

Another thing brides can do with it is make a bridesmaids or bridal party newsletter. I made mine which I posted in my wedding journal using Photoshop to look like a Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. But that’s a pretty neat tool for brides who do not know how to use photoshop.

 
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dori

Hey there! I photoshoped the time one and its super cute! If you’d like for me to clean it up for you and add a caption shoot me an email doriboone@yahoo.com and I’d be happy to!

 
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silverkeys

(i feel kind of guilty about posting this since i read weddingbee regularly and don’t comment even though i’m not getting married… but…)

you CAN add text without a solid background in MS paint. when you click on the “A” icon, you’ll see two options with geometric shapes in them appear at the bottom of the toolbar.

in each icon, there’s a cube with a dotted line around it. choose the one where the cube is on a transparent background (the lower one)

:)

happy photo editing.

 
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Aim

This is cool. I’m making one for my bf’s bday which is tomorrow. :)

Thanks!

 


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