Front Page - Construction

This is how i made up the front page of my magazine:

This is the image i first started with. I needed to get rid of the background and take only the main image in which i needed, so i used the "Magnetic Cropping Tool" in photoshop to cut him out.

When i put my image into my magazine page i found that it was a bit crooked on some of the edges. So i went onto youtube and found a tutorial on how to smoothen out the edges. It then came up with me using the tool "Refine Edges" which helped me make the edges smoother.

This is my image on my background after smoothening it. I then felt that my image was not strong and bright enough, so i decided to increase the brightness and contrast.

So i went to "Brightness and Contrast" to increase the brightness and contrast.

Here is my image after...I  then decided to add a drop shadow to my image for more effect

Here is how i added the drop shadow.

To add text i use the text box tool.

Here i added text in my text box, highlighted all the text and used the paint box tool to change the colour.

For some of my text i wanted to add an outer glow to them, so i clicked on the text  box and went to outer glow.

Here is my text with outer glow added to it.

To create my cirle i had to use the elipsises tool and then filled it with colour using the paintbox tool.

Whilst making my front page i found that i needed a font which photoshop could not provide. So i hade to search different websites to find the font. I finally ofund the font i wanted on "dafont.com" and i downloaded it and used it

Here is the new font i found and used.

Some of my text i thought needed to be stronger and clearer. And to do this i thoguht i would be a good idea to add drop shadow to the text. So i used the "Drop Shadow Tool" to do this.