Prints screen of final product

firstly I picked a photo that I thought was most suitable for a front cover of a rock/alternative magazine and uploaded it on photoshop.

I thought this was the most suitable because he is giving the audience eye contact, I also like the pose he is doing and the choice of background as it creates a 'grungy' look. The only problem was that it was landscape not portrait and their wasn't enough room above his head to put a mast head. By cloning the existing boards I began to recreate the top of the image. This took time as it had to be a perfect match to look convincing.

As I was doing this I airbrushed the sides to make it fit more. I also used the layer mask tool which faded the cloned piece into the existing piece.

End result. After this I emerged this image as one so it became less hassle as if I was trying to move something it wouldn't move each single board.

 I then began to reduce the vibrancy to make it look duller, I think this is a great idea for my magazine as most rock/grunge/alternative magazines use this technique.

I then made the grey part of the eye white, as it makes it look more eye catching.

I used the patch tool to get rid of all imperfections on his face to make it look more smooth but natural at the same time.

As most people involved with rock music have piercings etc, I decided to liquefy his ear so I have enough room to insert a tunnel ( image from google, cropped and pasted into ear)

Result of ear after I used the blur tool to make it look more realistic.



As I thought the writing on his shirt would interfere with headlines on my magazine I decided to get rid of it by using the clone tool.

For my mast head I decided I wanted something bold so I decided to outline my mast head by using a stoke effect and drop shadow.

As the mast head was simple and short, I decided to hide it behind my model by using the eraser tool.

I ten began to add a skyline, still following the colour scheme as it makes it look more professional.

After adding the writing on skyline using an arial font, so it makes it easy to read.

I then added a barcode to the bottom of my magazine.

After this I added my main storyline making it bigger then the other stories, using similar effects from the mast head like the sroke effect.

End Result.