Magazine Advert

The pictures below show my progression of my magazine advert for my artist and album. After doing my research in what to include in an magazine advert, i have found out that certain things are needed. These are: the artist and album name, ratings from newspapers and music magazines, quotes and a shot of the artist himself, which should be pre dominant on the cover.

These pictures above are from a website whoch provides different fonts. For my album name and artist name i wanted a sort of handwritten effect, so i went on this website and tried some samples.
I came to a descision to choose the font jellyvakes which is the the fourth font down in the second picture.

This is a screenshot of my magazine cover in the making in adobe photoshop. I have had to learn about layers and special settings in order to make my magazine cover what i wanted it to be.

 Here above is a picture of the amount of layers i had to use because each different text and image had to have its oen layer or it will effect other images and texts when trying to manipulate it. I have also named the different layers so i can easily select them without getting confused.

 One tool i had to use was the magic wand tool. Originally this amazon logo had a black background which wouldnt fit on the advert becasue i wanted to place it in a space that had a white background. So i used the magic wand to tool to remove this black background so its looks like the logo above.

This is a screen grab of my magazine advert which is almost finished. The amazon logo no fits on the page, and i have quotes from other magazines with the album name and artist name clearly shown. I have already recieved feedback on this, the main improvement i need to make is that the top left corner is too cramped, i need to space it out more. I have given it some thought and came to the decsision to create a bit more headroom so i can make his name go across the top and give a little more space in the top left.