- 1. I first began to create my front cover of my magazine by
opening up the main image of my model and erasing the background
using the rubber tool. I tried to use the magic wand tool as it
would be much easier and quicker to do. However when I tried to do
this it didnt give a clean cut around the model so I increased the
tolerance to make it more accurate but doing this erased some of
her hair as well as it is a similar colour to the background.
2. After that I made her lips a bright red colour to contrast
with the rock genre and the colour scheme of my magazine. I did
this using the brush tool and I painted over the sections that I
want to change colour. However doing this makes it extremely bright
and it is a solid, block colour so to make it look more realistic
and natural I decreased the opacity so that this colour/layer goes
slightly transparent. I did the same technique to give my model red
nail varnish. 3. After that I used the spot healing brush tool to
make her skin look smoother and to remove any imperfections in her
skin. 4. At this stage I decided that I didnt like the striped
shirt that my model is wearing underneath her leather jacket so I
decided to try and make it all black. First of all I created a
duplicate layer so that I had a spare copy in case it went wrong.
5. First of all I used the paint bucket tool to fill in most of the
white areas black.I then used the brush tool to fill in the extra
white gaps. 6. However, here you can see the difference in colours
so you can tell that I have coloured parts in myself. So to try and
blend these colours together I used the spot healing brush tool. 7.
Now my model is ready to go on the front cover of my magazine so I
clicked on edit, transform and scale so that I could make her the
right size for my front cover. Once I was happy with the size of
the image I clicked on the tick at the top of the screen to confirm
it. 8. I now began to create the basis of my magazine by adding a
mast head. Previously, I decided what the name of my magazine was
going to be and the font style so I used the horizontal type tool,
found the font style that I wanted to have, typed in the name of my
magazine and then positioned this at the top, left-hand corner of
the page. 9. To place my barcode on my magazine, I searched for a
barcode on Google and saved it to my documentsI then clicked file,
open and selected this file on Photoshop. 10. Finally, I clicked on
file, edit, transform then rotate and scale and positioned it where
I wanted it, to what size and what angle. 11. I thought that the
background was quite plain and boring so I selected the brush tool,
clicked the soft round end and increased the size to maximum and
placed a single dot in the centre of my page. I think this has made
it much more detailed and professional because it isnt a plain
background anymore. 12. Now I began to add more text onto my front
cover by thinking of a name for my model. I used the horizontal
type tool and chose a font that I thought represented the rock
genre. However you couldnt see the type very well as I want the
type to be black but it is hard to see due to the black leather
jacket that my model is wearing. So I created a box to put
underneath the text so that it is easy to see and very
eye-catching. I did this by clicking on the rounded rectangle tool
and decreasing the opacity of it. I did the same thing for the pull
quote. 13. I created smaller articles and a skyline using the same
tools as last time, the horizontal type tool and the rounded
rectangle tool. I positioned these features around the page to try
and fill up some of the gaps. However all the text seemed to be on
the left-hand side of the page so I moved the mast head to the
right to make it look more professional. 14. I made my plug using
the pen tool to create my own shape which would be good for holding
text. I then added the text into my plug using the horizontal type
tool. I decided to have all of the text in capital letters to show
to the reader that there is something big and exciting up for
grabs.