The document summarizes the process of creating a magazine cover in Photoshop. First, the author captured an image of a classmate in front of a green screen and cut them out using the pen tool. This image was placed on a new canvas as the first layer. A background photo was then added below the cutout image. Additional elements like a barcode, school logo, and title were added. Finally, cover lines were included to complete the magazine cover, though the author notes it was their first time using Photoshop and the quality was not high. The preliminary work provided valuable experience with the Photoshop tools.

1. To start I captured a picture of a fellow
classmate on the backdrop of a green
screen, and put this image into
Photoshop.

2. I then cut around the image using the
pen tool in Photoshop, and moved the
outline onto a new, blank canvas, making
it the first layer of my magazine cover.

3. Using a simple background photo taken from Google I place the
picture onto this. I choose an urban picture, and the colour blue
to contrast well with the clothes my model was wearing.

4. A small barcode was taken from Google and placed in the
bottom left of the screen, and a logo of my school, and the
school of which the magazine focuses on, was scavenged off
the schools website and cropped slightly. Finally, the title
was placed in the top left of the picture, a not-so-clever pun
on the name of the school.

5. The last stage of the process was to place a few cover and sell lines
onto the page to complete the process. As evidenced by the final
products picture, it was not of the highest quality at all,
highlighting my inexperience with the Photoshop programme and
tools, although it was to be expected as it was the first time I
encountered such a programme, and this preliminary work was
massively important as it gave me some experience with the tool
which was crucial to my basic understanding of how to use the
programme.