t’s so easy to create a magazine cover with Adobe Photoshop that anyone can understand the process from the screenshots alone, without any explanations. Allthough it’s quite simple and straight forward, you will need to already know few things such as isolating an image from the background.

Now let’s try to create a cover for a photography related magazine…

First of all create a new document and fill the background with a gradient, like this one:

On top of this bring an isolated image, such as the lady from my example here and add a drop shadow like this:

Below this layer, insert a new image with something related to the magazine topic (or anything you may think it’s interesting) and make sure the edges fade out into the background:

Between these 2 layers add some text to fit your cover and that’s all there is.

All your layers should look like this:

So the final Magazine cover is:

Credit: myphotoshoptutorial.com