How to Create Your Own Magazine Covers
A personalized magazine cover is a unique gift that your friends and family members will love! You can make these covers online and post them on social media sites like Facebook or MySpace. You can also have these magazines printed and have a tangible gift to give. There are many sites - but the sites shown here have the best selection of magazine covers and editing tools.
MagoFun, Fake Magazine Cover, Big Huge Labs, Magcover
Product Comparison
Application
MagoFun
Fake Magazine
Big Huge Labs
MagCover
Number Covers
50
800
1
100+
Customize Text
No
No
Tons
Tons
Comics Covers
No
Yes
No
No
Save to disk
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Save to Email
No
No
Yes
Yes
Save to Social
~30
No
~3
~30
Images Public
Yes
No
No
Choose
Login Required
No
No
No
Yes
Premium Options
No
No
Yes
Yes
Magcover
Unique Magazine Cover Wrap
Magcover.com is a a free service where you can make your own magazine cover. The website is more professionally done than the other magcover services. You have a wide choice of covers and nice ability to customize the text - very good flexibility on the text editing.
Magcover offers several premium (paid) products including a unique magazine wrap - one of my favorite products! This magazine jacket wraps around a same size, complimentary magazine. The effect is stunning and will make people think this is a real magazine. You can also get High Definition images and even framed versions.
They often have great promotions so be sure to check out their promotions page. Not only that, but their new iPhone apps (a free Lite version and a premium version for just 99cents) are excellent additions to the Magcover family.
Coverdude, WriteOnIt, MagMyPic, Fake Magazine Cover
Product Comparison
Application
Writeonit
Magmypic
Coverdude
YourCover
Number Covers
10
~50
~100
~15
Customize Text
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comics Covers
No
Yes
No
No
Save to disk
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Save to Email
Yes
No
Yes
No
Save to Social
3
20
20
No
Images Public
Choice
Choice
Choice
No
Login Required
No
No
No
Yes
Premium Options
No
Yes
Yes
Only
Writeonit Magazine Covers
Playboy, Playgirl, Time, Rolling Stone or Wired

Writeonit lets you make fake magazine covers which could be the most fun part of WriteOnIt. Take images of just about anything applicable, and add them to Playboy, Playgirl, Time, Rolling Stone or Wired. Along with an image, you can even come up with your creative caption to add.
Your Photo on a Magazine Cover
MagMyPic
MagMyPic has added more new magazines, and now have 30 different magazines to choose from. You can select any of them and make an impressive, unique, custom fake magazine with ease - it's simple! Just upload a pic and get started, or you can browse the magazines before hand. Web based and easy to use - but all you can customize is the photo - you can't change any of the text.
Cover Dude Magazine Covers
Create Your Own Magazine Cover

The main asset of Cover Dude is its fun value - there are endless templates to choose from (including perennial classics like "Top Gal", "Geek" and "Moron"), and the team behind it hopes to add new templates on a daily basis.
Active members of social networks are certain to put this service to excellent use. In essence, CoverDude empowers anybody to create a fake magazine cover without having to read a 500-page manual beforehand. It is all web-based and intuitive enough - users simply create a fake magazine, and then upload their picture into it.
Fake Magazine Cover
Fake Mag

Fake Magazine Cover only lets you pick the photo and the cover - no customizing the text on the cover or any colors. However, it has a HUGE list of covers to pick from - far more than any other site. Hundreds of real and creative fake titles. Every sport, hobby and more is represented by these cover.
iCover for the iPhone

Put a photo on magazine cover and have fun showing it to friends and family! iCover has 35 different industry magazines to choose from. You can select any of them and make an impressive, unique, custom fake magazine cover with ease. Insert photos of your friends, family, yourself, your pets or car and share the results by emailing it. You can also save the cover to iPhone/iPod Touch gallery and show it to friends and family later.
What It Takes to Design a Magazine Cover
After working on the latest cover for Macworld Magazine they wanted to show what is involved in making a cover. Focusing on the three main areas: the photography, photoshop and design. They chose a time lapse format to convey lots of information in a small amount of time. The only drawback of time lapse is that since half a day goes by in 30 seconds, the whole process seam so easy! Lots of details were left out of the design process (like the cover meetings and rounds of layout options). They began to photograph the design process after the layouts had already been narrowed down to just three cover designs
FormatPixel
Build an entire magazine!

Formatpixel is an online application which allows you to create 'page' based presentations; anything from magazines to fanzines, brochures to catalogues and even portfolios.
Using formatpixel's online WTP (Web Top Publisher) editor you can insert, design and layout pages for your projects. Add text objects adjust the many properties, upload and attach your own images and create shapes. See the Features list for a complete breakdown.
MagoFun Magazine Covers
Fake magazine covers with your picture

MagoFun is an easy to use magazine cover maker. You pick a photo, place the photo and you are done. No custom text, but that also makes it easy. Be advised your cover is often featured on their home page and other visitors may vote on it. So MagoFun is not for the shy - it is truly social!
Hard Copy Magazine Covers
Paid Option Only

Celebrate a Birthday or an Anniversary or Mother's Day or any day you can think of with YourCover Personalized Magazine Covers. Your photos plus a custom title & personalized headlines to say exactly what YOU want! Free online design system that's FUN to use. Start to finish in as little as 10 minutes!
YourCover professionally prints our full-color fake magazine covers on heavy glossy paper and places them in deluxe frames for shipping. Personalized magazine covers are unique gift ideas and make memorable party favors or distinctive table centerpieces. Make your own magazine cover at YourCover.com. It's a clever way to celebrate and commemorate an important person, occasion or milestone. And it's a unique keepsake that's sure to be remembered and enjoyed long after the event has passed.
Weddings, Anniversaries, Milestone Birthdays , Graduations , New Baby, Christening, Baptism , Sweet 16 , Bar Mitzvah , Bat Mitzvah , Quinceanera , Retirement , First Communion , Golf-Themed Parties, Family Reunions , Mother's Day , Father's Day, Valentine's Day, Coach's Gift, Sports
Your Own Wired Cover
One Hit Wonder - For WIRED fans only

Powered by Xerox, this service allows you to create your own Wired magazine cover. Customized everything from titles, colors to photos.
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- CoverVision CoverVision Jan 22, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
- Here the best one: http://covervison.com
100 templates + you can buy a the script to make your own site!
Regards
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- dagsmith dagsmith Jan 25, 2010 @ 10:45 pm
- I think you mean Covervision which is actually a clone of MagoFun - or MagoFun is a clone of Covervision, it's hard to tell. They are essentially the same sites with different names. It's a nice entry level option - but without all the text editing it's not my top choice.
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- WordCustard WordCustard Jan 22, 2010 @ 3:34 pm
- Clever idea -- and a great guide to all the options! It looks like it would be fun to try a personalised magazine cover.
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- neo235 neo235 Nov 30, 2009 @ 4:52 am
- hey check www.magofun.com it had large number of magazine covers to choose from.
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- jgelien jgelien Nov 16, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
- What a neat lens. I love this idea.
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