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 didn’t 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 didn’t 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 documents
I 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 isn’t 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 couldn’t 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.