Oracle Magazine Cover: Editing Process

For the editing process of our magazine covers we decided to create a time lapse of the cover being create on Photoshop. It starts off with a pre made template which we used for all of our magazine covers. The template features the Empire Magazine logo at the top with our tagline "You think the war is over?" above it. It also features a slanted band which will feature the other magazine covers and the title of the film "Rebellion II: Rise of Kronos" above that. The template also includes sell lines such as "The long awaited sequel is finally here" and "We talk to the mind behind Rebellion". We then inserted an image of sand dune from a desert and used the magic wand tool to remove the white background. We then adjusted the layers so that the desert can appear as the background. We then used the sky from an image of a port during a sandstorm as the sky for our background. We used the polygon lasso tool to remove the rest of the image and keep just the sky that we wanted. We then inserted the sky onto our cover and once again readjusted the layers so that the sky can be in the background. We then inserted an image of Dubai's skyline and used a combination of the magic wand and polygon lasso tool to remove the background from the image so that it wouldn't clash with the sky which we used as the background for our magazine cover. We then used the free transform tool to make it smaller and place it behind the sand dunes to make it seem as if it is in the distance. We then opened the main image of our character, Oracle (Yassir), aiming his gun. Using the polygon lasso tool, we carefully traced around and masked the character to remove the background, not forgetting any gaps such as that left between the gun and his arm. After completing this, we transferred the image onto our magazine cover. We then adjusted the layers and resized the character so that we could place him in a way that his head covers some of the Empire logo but the he his still behind the rest of the template. After this, we inserted an image of a sandstorm in front of the character and reduced it opacity to around 70% to make it seem like he is in a sandstorm. We then used the magnetic lasso tool to remove the sandstorm effect from the Empire logo to make it stand out and catch the reader's eye when one the shelves. We then inserted the magazine covers for the other characters. We had to rotate and resize them to fit in the white squares in the slanted band. After then inserted sell lines such "World First!" and "Meet Oracle", as well as a barcode, our magazine cover was finished.