How Do You Create A Magazine Cover In Photoshop?
• This is very simple to do, but this article assumes you already have a fair amount of knowledge using Photoshop. • Create a new document that is twice the width and about 50% higher than your cover image. Give the new image a gradient for the background. Any colors will do for now. • Paste in your cover image, name the layer “Cover”. Click on Edit>>Transform>>Perspective. Drag the top left handle down just a bit to add the correct perspective to the cover image. It should look something like this: • Copy the cover layer by dragging the layer down to the new layer button in the layers palette. Now move this layer behind the cover layer and name it “Back”. • Double click the back layer so that the layers style window comes up. Apply a color overlay, using a color that is similar to the cover, but darker. • Now again click on Edit>>Transform>>Perspective. This time drag down the upper right handle. Just a little bit. Your image should now look something like this: • Duplicate the back l
