1. The document describes the process of creating a magazine cover design for a subject named Kyle. 2. Various Photoshop tools like Camera Raw, selection tools, layers, brushes, and effects were used to edit the background, add textures, frame text with shadows, and incorporate designed elements like a masthead and plug. 3. Final touches included adding stickers, textures, and adjusting colors to achieve a grungy, distressed look for the overall cover design.

1. RONT COVER, THE MAKING
PROCESS

2. MAIN IMAGE
The initial image of Kyle I am going
to be using as my main image.
I started out by adjust the photographs conditions
via the use of Camera Raw, a Photoshop plug-in.
I then began to erase the
background with an eraser.
After this I made a selection around Kyle
via the use of the quick selection tool

3. BACKGROUND
Subject cropped.
I then added a layer mask and saturated
the background in green.
After this I incorporated grunge texture I
made prior to this project via the use of the
brush tool in Photoshop with a grainy brush.
I then created a new layer and began to
draw over the texture via the use of the
brush tool again.

4. BACKGROUND
I then added to almost tornado like, in shape, shadows you
could call them in order to frame the cover line I was going
to incorporate.
After so I incorporated another shadow using
the same method only this time to frame the
masthead.
I added another shadow here again only
this time to frame the main cover line.
I added another shadow for the main
cover line to enhance the framing of it.

5. CONVENTIONS
I added a final shadow to the framing of the main
cover line which is green as I believed the blacks
were too harsh.
Next I began to incorporate text, pictured here, my main cover
line. I used a drop shadow to enhance the noticeability of the
text and used the eraser to distort the text to tie in with my
grungy theme.
Here I added a white text box to frame the strip that
I had distorted through the use of a grainy brush
and the opacity of the brush tool.
I then incorporated my masthead which I
created prior.

6. CONVENTIONS
Here I added all of the cover line,
what was to consist in mm magazine.
I start here the creation of my plug. I used
the ellipse tool to create the shape and the
polygonal lasso tool to start the crop.
Her I cut the selection I made via
the use of the polygonal lasso tool. I then rotate the section I cut.

7. PLUG
I then colour overlay the segment to
distinguish it from the main shape.
I then here use the brush tool with a soft brush selected in order to
give the effect that the sticker had been peeled as these strokes I
created were to show resemblance to a shadow.
After this I use the warp tool to
emphasise the fact that the sticker
had been peeled off.
I then used the gradient editor to impersonate
that of a shadow on the bottom of the sticker.

8. FINAL TOUCHES
THE END
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Her I incorporated my sticker to the cover. Here I added an almost chalk-like effect to the
cover segregating features and conventions. I did
this via the use of a grainy square-like brush tool.
I then altered the colour curves in
order to darken the image some as I
believed it was too bright.