The document provides instructions for creating a DVD cover in Photoshop. It describes opening a DVD template and choosing a background photo from the target audience of 8-13 year olds. It then explains how to duplicate and unlock the photo layer to edit out a logo by selecting the paintbrush tool and coloring over it with a similar color.

1. How I created my DVD cover
using Photoshop.
Sarah Noble

2. The first step is to open the DVD template which I have created on Photoshop elements 10
which is the latest edition of Photoshop available to download. The DVD template is shown
above the layers are located on the right on the screen grab in the right bottom hand
corner. I have found that using a template to make sure everything is in the correct place
to have a successful DVD cover, with the template the can be hidden by hiding the layer
which the template is on.

3. I then needed to decide on a background to use for the background of the DVD cover,
as this is a DVD which is for Mona the Vampire which has a target audience of children
aged 8 to 13 the DVD cover need to stand out on the shelf and be able to draw in this
target audience. To open a photo you need to open a new layer and then click file and
Open then chose the photo or image that you want to use and then click open.

4. This photo shown above is the photo which is going to be used on the background for
my DVD cover, as there is a logo on the photo I will have to edit this out by using
photoshop.

5. After opening the photo which you want to edit in Photoshop you need to duplicate the
photo layer so this photo can be edited, you also need to make sure that the photo is
unlocked before you start editing as the area that you are editing will not Appear on the
image. You also need to make sure the layer that you are editing is at the top of the
layers tool bar located on the right of the screen grab above.

6. As I am going to edit out the logo and lines of the photo shown above, this can be done
by covering the logo in a similar colour in this case I am going to use the colour black.
You firstly select the paint brush tool located on the left hand tool bar and then chosen
which colour you want by clicking the two small black and white coloured boxes at the
bottom of the left hand tool bar. This will then cover the white istockphone logo shown
above were one of the lines as already been edited out.

7. I have then continued to edit the logo out of the photo shown above, with the
paintbrush tool.