The document describes the process of creating a front cover in Adobe Photoshop CS3 over six lessons. The creator added effects to the background to make the main image of a boy holding a guitar stand out more from the plain background. Text was added in white with shadow effects, and red and black colors were chosen to make the magazine cover less plain and fit with its colors.

1. I created my front cover in Adobe Photoshop CS3 I found this easy because I’ve
used this software before; these are screen grabs of the process when making
my front cover. We had six lessons to make this.
For the background I added an My main image is of an indie looking
effect to make the main image stand boy holding a guitar looking straight
out more and so the background at the camera. I didn’t use any
wasn’t plain effects on him.
I added red and black because the
After trying different colours I used
magazine was looking to plane and
white as my text with shadow
to fit with the colours of the
effects to make them stand out.
magazine.