Screenshots up to my final draft of my front cover

 I opened my first draft of my magazine front cover and hid all the layers apart from the picture. I then clicked on the quick selection tool and selected my two models.

I right-clicked my models and created a new layer via cut, creating a layer with my models and another layer with the background on.



 I clicked the background layer and selected the image menu, and selected the black & white tool

I then clicked the layer with my models and clicked the image menu, then clicked the levels option.

After i clicked the levels option, the pop-up came up, i changed the red, green and blue levels to 0.75 to make the picture darker to give it a grungier feel.

I then blurred the outline of my models to make them blend in with my background.

I turned on all my other layers and started to move the black boxes around my main headline down

I clicked the box around 'Spice' and clicked the edit menu, and went to the transform fold-out menu and clicked the scale option.

I changed the size of the box so that it contained all of the word 'Spice', I held the 'Shift' button down to make sure that the box moved in proportion.

I then moved the 'Introducing', 'Rock' and 'Revolution' down so that there would be enough room on the top for a skyline.

I then hid the competition writing at the bottom of the page and clicked the box that surrounded it. I went to the edit menu and then to transform and scale.

I made the box smaller and moved to the top of the page to create a skyline. I then turned on the competition layer and moved it to the top to make the skyline.

I then made the box pink. I deleted the word 'WIN!!' from the original text and put it in another text box in order to be able to make it a different colour to the rest of the skyline to make it stand out.

I then moved the splash, barcode, issue number and price down to the bottom of the page to make sure that the full page was taken up.

I then got advised to remove the blocks from around my main headline, so I hid the layers (just to make sure that I still had them if it didn't look right)

I clicked on the 'spice' layer and added a drop shadow and inner shadow to create the same effect that I had for the 'Rock' and 'Revolution'

I did the same to the 'n' and 'sugar'

I decided to change the issue number in order to make it easier for me when I'm creating my contents page.