Front Cover Construction

First I started by importing my masthead onto a A4 photoshop document on which  I had created a base colour background.

I then decided to create a style on the background so I used the area sectioned by the I and M to add a colour to the background.

I made the Y of Elysium red so it also added to the colouring this also allowed it to stand out from the brown background.

After looking through my images I decided this image was the best for purpose as it was and interesting use of props and the lighting made it easy to remove the background so i could layer it onto the background I had made. Here are some other images I considered;

This image like the one I chose has an interesting use of props however I personally feel that it does not involve the audience as much as he is not looking at the camera.

This image had good lighting and the model was looking at the camera however the large smile is not appropriate for the rock theme so there fore I opted against using this image.

After removing the background from my image I increased the image size to fit properly in the page allowing a focus on the face.

I created a folded sticker design with shadowing affect to place onto my front cover to give it a graphics design common to music magazines.

To add a grit affect I took an image of a brick wall and then changed the opacity to around 30% just so it gave and overlay and darkened the style of the cover.