1. Evaluation
I used Photoshop to make a front cover for a gaming
magazine. The tools I used were:
- Hue/saturation
- Paint tool
- Crop tool
- Quick selection tool
- Custom shape tool
- Threshold
- Shadow tool for glow around the letters.
- Writing tool
I haven’t learnt how to use any new tools on Photoshop.

2. This is one of the colours I used in my magazine
cover For the blood in Call of Duty Ghosts I used the
custom tool and slowly added blood to it
because the game is full of blood.
For this photo I got a DVD
cover and printed of a front
cover of an Xbox 1 game cover
and edited the photo to make
it black and white.
For the background I got a photo
of myself and edited it with
hue/saturation tool to make it
more colourful and vibrant.

3. This is the finished magazine
cover.
My strengths for Photoshop are:
- Using layers
- Adding photos
- Using the text tool
- Cropping photos
- Using custom shape tool
- Using colour
- Using quick selection tool
- Using the texture tool
The weaknesses were:
- Reading the text on the left hand side.
- Trying to fit everything on to the cover and getting the right size of the photos

4. Comparison between my magazine cover and a real front cover
This is a proper gaming magazine made by Microsoft Xbox. I think that the colours of my
magazine are not similar to the Xbox magazine but the colour box, barcode, price are
similar to the magazine.
Are you pleased with it?
I am pleased with my end result of my front cover. If I did it again I would try and add more
stuff in like photos and text and neaten it up a bit better.