The document describes the steps taken to create a front cover for a music magazine in Photoshop, including adding a lighting effect background, inserting the title text, moving and cropping an image, and adding additional text boxes of different colors and fonts. The key steps are creating a new A4 document, applying a spotlight lighting filter, using the text and shape tools to add titles and boxes, and positioning and sizing the image on the page.

1. Making my front coverFor my music magazine on Photoshop

2. Making a new document Firstly I started by creating a new document for my music magazine.I used a A4 size of paper to create my front cover.

3. Lighting effect For the background on my music magazine i added a lighting effect. I did this by going to filter, then scrolled down to render and clicked on lighting effects.

4. Adding a lighting effect The lighting effect i when chose was spotlight as shown its a default setting of the programme and so already the back ground behind the light was black.

5. Adding Text I then added the title INDIE to the front of my music magazine. I did this by clicking on the text type button in the tools box.Then clicking on the part of the page i wished to the type on i did so.

6. Moving text

7. Cropping my image I then added my image onto the cover. I did this by clicking on the lasso tool within the tool box. I then cut around the image. Once happy i then made sure the image was placed right.

8. Adding more textOnce my image was in place and i was happy with it i then added more text.Again i did this by using the text bottom within the tool using different font as the title.

9. Adding a text box and changing colourI then added a plus box. I did this by adding a rounded rectangle box. That i found within the tool box. Once i have done this i then changed the colour as shown.I then repeated this with a smaller box with the red one and made it with