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Adobe Photoshop

A community portal about Adobe Photoshop with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for... [more]

A community portal about Adobe Photoshop with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and, in addition to Adobe Acrobat, is one of the best-known pieces of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is considered the industry standard in most jobs related to the use of visual elements. Photoshop is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS ; versions up to Photoshop 9.0 can also be used with other operating systems such as Linux using software such as CrossOver Office. Past versions of the program were ported to the SGI IRIX and Sun Solaris platforms, but official support for this port was dropped after version 3.

Easy magazine cover in Photoshop

Magazine coverIt’s so easy to create a magazine cover with Adobe Photoshop that anyone can understand the process from the screenshots alone, without any explanations. Allthou it’s quite simple and straight forward, you will need to already know few things such as isolating an image from the background.

You should read the tutorial on isolating an image first, if you have no clue how to do it. After that, you will know everything you need to know in order to create a magazine cover.

Now let’s try to create a cover for a photography related magazine…

First of all create a new document and fill the background with a gradient, like this one:

On top of this bring an isolated image, such as the lady from my example here and add a drop shadow like this:

Below this layer, insert a new image with something related to the magazine topic (or anything you may think it’s interesting) and make sure the edges fade out into the background:

Between these 2 layers add some text to fit your cover and that’s all there is.

All your layers should look like this:

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