Magazine Cover Photoshop

After playing around with a variety of different effects in photoshop, I decided to use the 'Poster Edges' effect as it gave the photo of Tyler a glossy and slightly animated effect. With this, I was able to play around with the strengths on the effect to alter the detail and edges that made it seem like a poster. I thought this effect would work well in the Little White Lies style as it distorted the photo in a similar arty way to some of their current magazine covers.

    

I then used my original brick wall background from my poster to create synergy between the two pieces. With this, I created a layer of purple to lay over the brick background, which I could then change the opacity of to blend the two layers. This then created a faint background that suited the Little White Lies minimalist backgrounds to avoid distracting from the main feature of the character portrait.

I then made a copy of the Little White Lies sticker from one of the original magazines and layered it onto my cover. Here, I made sure that I put the sticker at the centre of the top of the cover, in the center to match the positioning on the Little White Lies cover. With this, I then had to enlarge the photo of Tyler so that I could position him lower on the cover to make room for the sticker to ensure it didn't cover too much of his face.

On the Little White Lies covers the title of the film is displayed subtly on the cover. Taking this into consideration, I used a graffiti creator online to write FRANK in graffiti across the brick wall behind Tyler (Frankie). I thought this worked well as it kept with the theme of the original magazine and highlighted some of the themes of the film, creating synergy with the poster and trailer.

After looking closely at the Little White Lies stickers on the covers, I noticed the issue numbers,date and price above the magazine title. With this, I found a similar font and added the text to suit my cover, using a date to match the releasing of my film from my poster and trailer.

After getting some feedback on my current progress, I had a suggestion to try a smaller font for the graffiti to have all the letters fit on one side of Tyler's head. I tried this and used more text on the other side of his head to complete the 'Talk To Frank' phrase. However, I think this took the subtlety away from the title and didn't blend as well with the rest of the features of the cover.