Adding a Barcode & Social Media Icons

I wanted to add a barcode to my cover to make it look more professional. To do this I used Photoshop and re-sized it to fit my cover.

My barcode

I also wanted to add social media icons to my front cover to make it look professional and plug the social media accounts. This can encourage readers to be more interactive with the magazine and in this digital age I feel it is a important aspect of marketing any product. I searched for free social media icon vectors and found some on DreamStale that I was happy with and I thought suited the look of my magazine. I decided to use three popular social media icons: Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

I then added these two elements to my main cover at the right bottom corner.