Before and after, the process of making my cover

Thus is the original image and this is what it looked like I after I was done. It took me a while to decide on the font for the title of my magazine, and I didn't like any of the ones on photoshop because they didn't look like they belonged on a rock magazine. Eventually I went on http://www.picnik.com/ (which has now closed)  which is an image editing website, and chose a font from there. I typed in MOVEMENT and saved it as an image then put it on my magazine cover. I used the stroke affect to get the dark outline around the text. Jake's arm overlaps the Movement text but the rest of his body is behind the other text. To do this I had to use the Magnetic Lassoo tool and cut Jake's arm to make it a seperate layer. I then moved this layer higher than the MOVEMENT layer.

The rest of the font I used was mostly Impact, which I think is quite affective as it stands out well. I used the same colour as I used for the MOVEMENT font to create a house style, but to stop my magazine from being boring I used a gradient affect on it. I made the Currawongs logo by cropping out a Currawong and using a stroke from the inside of it to make it all black. I cut the eye out seperately and put it over the top of the bird. The font I used for THE CURRAWONGS is also from http://www.picnik.com/  and I pasted it over a blue rectangle.