Magazine Cover

I chose to re-create a cover for the Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.  I decided to use a photograph I had taken at the tulip farm earlier this year.  I cropped it so that the most interesting part was displayed on the cover and then I added the magazine title.  This took quite a while as I had to do it in several parts due to the differing size and arrangement of the letters.

Next I entered a date, main cover line and some additional cover lines.  I used the same two fonts throughout, but changed the size and italicised some text to add interest.  I also used the eye dropper tool to colour match the cover lines with the colours of the flowers.

This is the final version....

Only problem - I didn't really like it.  I think this is because the tree was too detailed and the overall look and feel was too busy.  So I changed the cover image to a close-up of tulips and updated the cover line colours to match.  It was easy to turn off photo layers and to make sure the text was visible I made sure the image layer was located below the text ones.  I prefer this final version to my first effort.