Bead Chat Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 8

The Cover Get Involved. Would you like to see your designs in Bea the members of Creative Bead Chat. Here and a peek at what the editors are looking Generally when we’re looking for an image to use on the cover, we’re looking for either white backgrounds or backgrounds with great props...something that showcases the finished piece. Cover images are always chosen by the editorial team. If you can’t get a good white background on your images, it’s not a problem as we can edit for you. Cover images also tend to go with one of the themes we’re using inside the magazine, or with our color scheme for that month. Cover images are difficult to find as we need a “portrait” shot, rather than a ”landscape” shot as most images tend to be. Because of this it’s useful to have the white background option. creativebeadchat.com We normally hand work really stands of our themes for a for being a membe ent from anything overall package th Come A Long Way With...” feature, we’ll work with the designer to produ using their own words and favourite images. We’re al deserves a feature, please feel free to contact Melinda and we’ll take it on board. Articles We’re always on the look lous content for the maga Sometimes we’ll approac and ask them to contribu love for you to approach ideas too! You don’t have to come up with the layo simply supply the text and images and we can create the layou This could be anything from a tutorial to a product review and in between! Made a great pair of earrings and want to share ho it? Send us the picture of the finished product, or step by step i fer, and the basic instructions and we’ll feature you and your de great blog hop planned and want some exposure? Email us @ b [email protected] specify it’s for the magazine in the title a back to you for more details. Don’t be nervous about sharing yo with us, 99.9% of the time, we can use the imput!