On today’s tutorial we are going to show how to create professional looking magazine covers, there are several professional plugins that can help you like Pagework produced by Boxwork Corp. The principles shown here can also be applied using the Boxwork plugin tools!
Starting off our tutorial we will need a close up picture like the one in our example. And by …

First thing we need to do is extract the photo we want to work with into photoshop.
A good way to extract the photo is by using the pen tool and zoom in by 400% and by fine tuning you can draw up the exact picture you want to extract.
A quicker way of doing this but also more sloppy is by going to …

Begin your Photoshop filters by making a Merged Visible layer above all of your work to this point. This is a way of making a flattened copy of everything you see.
In order to make a new layer hit: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E

Label the Merged Visible Layer by double-clicking its name in the Layers palette. Duplicate this Merged Visible Layer several times. The goal …

Filter Gallery is a handy browser of Filters which is a very useful and interactive tool for checking out the result of applying the filters on your image. At the same time it lists the various available filters and can show an instant preview of the final image. Filter Gallery lets one stack the filters on top of each other …