First magazine cover

This is my first magazine cover, I was copying from my flat plan. I used a range of different skills on photoshop to complete my magazine. I used alot of layers so everything i put on the front was on a layer so if anything went wrong it could be deleted without deleting everything i had done. I used text control to add text to my front cover and used masthead and captions on the image like a proper magazine front cover. I used this to make the text closer together and add more control over the text on different layers so I could change the look of some of the letters so they were not all the same. I used a filter on my photo to make it stand out more and make it look brighter.
I used shape creation to make shapes go on my front cover and make them have eye catching colours and an interesting quote inside. I used resolution setting control so i used 300 pixels per inch before opening the document so it was clear and had a more professional feel. I used the cropping tool to crop the image if there was a light in the background appearing through if i didn't want it there. Clone tool was used to make the skin all over the same so i copied it and applied it to the correct space.
On my first front cover i needed more guidance to make my final front cover better, and make sure it looked better so i did all this that i have explained with more to make it better and had a move around of some of the text boxes and quotes on the front.