Post 1 Create a magazine cover

First project will be to create a magazine cover, can be any kind here is an example.

 

To do this we need:
- Create a new document (File->New) and make it 1200 pix wide and 1600 pix high.
- Create a new layer

- Delete the "Background" layer, by selecting it and then clicking the trash icon next to the new layer icon.

-Two main objects which are one punch man and godzilla, and I used Genos on the side as a joke.
- First we find pictures of them in the internet

- To correctly add the image to our new document you need to copy the image from the website by right click and "copy image", then go to photoshop and press Ctrl+V (paste). If you try to drag and drop an image that you already downloaded you will open a new document in photoshop instead of adding the image to the document we created.

- Now we crop the image using the magnetic lasso tool

-We crop around it until we get one punch man by himself

- We do the same with any image we want to use without its background, like Godzilla and Genos.

- We find a suitable background

- Once we have all these images in layers in photoshop we arrange them the way we want it.

- Here is my layout

- Then we add some text and anything we want to make it look better.

Here is the link for the PSD file