Cool Magazine Layouts

It is a great way to better integrate your photographs into your text and give them a consistent look. Air photos allow you to embed type smoothly into the photograph - try to fill these spaces with uncommon headings and text blocks for a versatile, imaginative look. Experience how the air drift reaches new highs in the bookcase industry.

Easily layer text and pictures to add a 3-D look to your 2-D layouts. Trim the motif of a photograph from the back and use this proven layer formulation to generate a 3-D look that pops out of the page. Extend the Layer window in InDesign (Window > Layers) and make a row of planes in that order:

The background of the photo, text behind the image, subject of the photo, and text in front of the image at the top of the stack. Sharing your contents in this way will help you get the 3-D look used in these Harper's Bazaar UK layouts. It' astonishingly easy technology to make your layouts appear immediately more alive and full of energy.

Watch this step-by-step guide to how you can add a cool 3-D look to your magazine design with a basic framework and the Scissors Tool in InDesign. It may be because of the covers that someone takes your magazine off the peg, but the content page is the actual anchors for the whole work.

This content page is the first place readers go before they even get to article and feature pages, and offers the ability to make a template masters for the remainder of the magazine's layouts, and it's also the place to develop some ingenuity. Ultimately, no one wants to reread a long, boring long checklist - pictures, colour, interesting typefaces and an uncommon raster to breathe a little bit extra vibrancy into your content page.

An interior feature's opening width screams for a big, fat type. Taste an elegantly sleek typeface like Didot for Vogue-esque or choose a round sleek typeface like the one in this example to make your layouts look funny, childish and full of vibrancy. Make your typeface around the topic of the item a central topic and don't be shy about making it as fat, cheeky and noisy as possible.

Find even more professional hints for enhancing your magazine layouts in no time at all, or learn the fundamentals of magazine designing with our two-part magazine layout guide.