The first main change I made to my magazine front cover is the Masthead. Unlike the conventional magazine front covers, my Masthead didn't dominate the page so I made it alot bigger so it could fit on my page. By making it bigger it stands out for the readers of Magazine.
Secondly, I took the main coverlines out of the boxes as they didn't look very quthentic and looked more like a cartoon magazine.Getting rid of these boxes also allowed me to clear space on the page to focus on the Main Image. I still put them in boxes but moved them out of the way to continue focusing on the Main Image.
I made the Coverlines 'The Real Gangsta' and 'JBeezy On His Life' alot bigger because they needed to stand out more. These also feature in the contents so the reader's would need to see them easily.
Lastly I made the images bigger so they were easily visible to the readers and to fill a little more space. All of the editing was done in a word processing document however some on the editing to the Images were done in other files such as 'Paint.net'.