Stages of creating my front page

Here are the stages i went through to produce my front page, i show the different toolsis used and how i used them. 

Im currently producing a video that shows the progession of how i created it.

Here are the two photos that I combined to get the final front cover photo; the original on the left and the head from the person in white on the right as because in the left photo he isn’t looking directly into the camera.

I used basic tools like the lasso tool and then the cut tool to get his head onto my desired image, I then used the rubber and the clone stamp tools to make it fit in.

Here is the final image after some light editing was done and then a crop using the crop tool here.

This is the first text layer I added to my front cover.

Using the text tool in the toolbar, I drew a box and inserted my title of my magazine, then after choosing my desired front which was downloaded form DaFont.com®

I then found that I wanted to put one of my models heads that was behind my title text, infront of it. I did this by doing a quick lasso around his head and then making it a new layer, I then put that layer in front of the text layer.

I then used the text tool again to create the caption for the cover photo.

in this stage I created a virtual sticker, I did this by using the eclipse tool to create a circle and then filling it in red with the paint bucket tool, I then used the same eclipse tool to create a white circle to make it look like its peeling back.

I then added the ‘FREE POSTER TEXT’ to the sticker and re-sized and rotated it to fit.

I used the text again tool to create the ‘100+ gigs inside’, I also used blending options on this text layer. To use blending options you right click on the layer which you want and then go to blending options.

This is the window that pops up when you select blending options, I selected a drop shadown and an inner glow so that the text stands out from the background image.

The next stage in my development was adding some text at the top of the cover, I went for a simple design to have to lines of text, the top line in red stating a title and then underneath a line in white giving a little more information.

Then I created another cover story to match the previous, this was the same type and style so it matched the text next to it, I then added a patician using the line tool.

I chose the patician to be yellow as it fits in with the colours ive used already, to use the line tool I just simply clicked and dragged to create a line.

I then added a barcode, this is rather simple, I generated my own barcode on the internet and the brought it into photoshop, then simply used this tool  to crop it then used the move/crop tool to drag it onto my front cover.

I then added some text at the bottom using the text tool, this time I made it slightly larger and gave it an appropriate colour for the front cover

This text was then accompanied by this photo that I took and ‘rasterized’ to make it look like a festival or a nightclub. I positioned it using the move tool then rotated it.

The next addition is the ‘plus’ (+) shape, again I used the line tool to just draw a simple cross and then coloured it yellow, to fit in with the other line I made.

I then added a new text box using the text tool to put some text just below the ‘plus’, I then added a drop shadow to it as the text is white.

Finally I added the date next to the title of the magazine by using the text tool again and then just rotating it around. I used a handwriting font just to add a little bit of professionalism.