How to make magazine cover in Photoshop?

Question

I've been trying to make something that looks like a magazine cover.I been looking for some tutorials....can someone help me?

Answer 1

I don't have a tutorial but here are some hints.
* Have the whole of the front be a photo.
* Arrange the text around the photo.
* If the photo has people on put the people on a seperate layer above everything else.
* Don't forget a barcode, this should go in the lower left.
* Put the price and the date in small near the top left.
* The heading should either be centred at the very top or in a box in the top left.
* Stuff on the left should be left aligned, stuff on the right right aligned.
* The magazine should lead on one headline that is bigger or in a different colour (or both).
* If this is a fake magazine cover you'll need to make some fake text just to fill it up.
* Stick to 2 or at most 3 colours for text, use one for titles and the other for spiels.
* Magazines are usually 10 3/4 inches in height and 9 1/4 inches in width.
* If this isn't for print you can create a layer at the top and use alpha effects (maybe gradients) to make it look glossy.
* Non of these rules are unbreakable these conventions help create a magazine feel.

Some notable covers:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1991/1101910506_400.jpg
http://home.tiscali.nl/wnn548639/images/magazines/corrs%20cv_fwd9.jpg
http://www.scoregolf.com/Web-ImageBase/Stock/SCOREGolf/Magazine/covers/may-2005-cover-full.jpg
http://www.madonnalicious.com/covers/magazines/16apr2004.jpg
http://www.shuqi.org/multi/pictures/magazine_covers/sq_cover_vogue2.jpg

Answer 2

Photoshop isn't in basic terms used to alter physique shapes. from time to time a photograph would be as ideal as you gets, yet there will be a flyaway hair or a reasonable "imperfection" (say freckles), and that's theory that changing it may well be extra beneficial. On Cindy Crawford's first magazine cover, they bumped off her mole! She's no longer a skinny sort, however the factor i became making is that even whilst it is not something substantial, consumers'll turn to Photoshop to get their theory of perfection.