Photoshop Practice Exercise 1

This here is the result of my Photoshop practice exercise. I have created a magazine cover for The Simpsons movie, we did this to start to get used to using Photoshop and to practise making a magazine cover. This will help us learn and give us more experience in Photoshop for when we have to create our finished product. Here it is...

I have created this movie poster by, first, finding an image that worked well on the internet. I then dded the masthead at the top and overlapped the image and used the doughnut as the 'O'. I then added a puff at the bottom, this is used to offer promotional items and is a good way of drawing the attention of the buyer. I added a bold main sell line in the centre of the magazine. I have used drop shadows throughout the cover to make certain things stand out and to make it look less flat. I added a barcode to the bottom with the other essential information. I have added lots of promotional items as the magazine would be aimed at a younger audience who are more likely to look for free things in the magazine. I am very happy with the way it has come out as it features all of the things that appeal o the target audience, for example, bold colours, puff, cluttered layout.