Overlayed color tiled composition

This is one of the front cover images I have done on photoshop that is one of my best that i really like. I like it because i feel it is more attractive to my target audience and they can relate to the artwork very well with the bright and exciting colors.

First thing i did to create this was to pick the picture of connor which i liked best and that i felt told a story and would draw the audience in.

Once i had picked the picture i was going to use i then starting playing with different filters and effects, but decided on a simple black and white filter on the image. By going to image, adjustments then black and white. Which i then played with the different colors to bring Connor out of the background more and make him stand out more.

After this i went and designed a abstract piece of art using the polygonal lasso tool to create these jagged tiled shapes, which i then filled with bright psychedelic colors.



I then took the artwork and put it over the image of connor that i previously edited. I did this by going into the overlay options and selected linear light, because it was best out of all the options. As i wanted to still have connor bold but the colors bright. So things like overlay and multiply took over the image too much.

Although it already looked good i just turned the fill option down on the actually colored tiles so it looked the best it possibly could.

hough it already looked good i just turned the fill option down on the actually colored tiles so it looked the best it possibly could.

Now i then add the title for the booklet which was learner survival guide. Which was in futura extra bold font, as alot of big magazine companies like NME use it for its classic but also contemporary look. I also position the learner and survival close together at the top and the Guide down at the bottom. This is because when they were bunched together at the top it looked to generic, but it also took over and covered connors face too much!

Although it looked to sparse and was a bit disconnected and didn't look right.

So i took the title and put it into a new photoshop document so i could redesign it to to look more intriguing but also so even though the words would be spread out, that they still felt connected. But because i really like the text i had but i was struggling to fit it into the front cover and it look right, i decided to adapt it to make it more unusual. So i took a idea from what i did for the title i did for my media magazine front cover for my AS level, which was this

By extending the lettering gave a much more interesting look to it which was much more exciting and meant it was like no other title out there.

With the LSG title i adopted that approach again by extending the letter L swooping over and connecting into the top of the L in the word survival. But just rounding off the top of the L so it didn't look too sharp. I did this by making the L in Learner a separate layer and moving it down, then by using the rectangular marquee tool, extending it all the way over.  Then warped the corner so it was round.

 The same technique was used to extend the R down to the U, i just used the rectangular marquee tool.

After all this i placed the new title back into the image for the front. Which imediatly  looked miles better. The text now seemed together even though they were apart and it also framed connors face which i really liked. But i have still retained the classic text look with the Futura font, but now looks more modern as well.

Finally i added a slight drop shadow on the layre style options by increasing the distance and decreeing the opacity of it meant the text stood out more but it doesn't look like it is lifting off the paper.