My Magazine cover

Phew I finally finished my magazine cover for the first IT project. ^^;
I did the magazine cover based on a japanese rockband, featuring the singer on the cover of the magazine. There is actually a magazine called Arena 37 C and since I liked the font and the name of the magazine I decided to take the title and put it as my magazine cover.

This task to me a very long time to finish since I didn't know what edits I should make with the person and also I took a very long time to find a right picture for my magazine layout.

First I removed all the red spheres that was interfering with the original stock image and put some textures on the background to 'spice up' the image. I find that his face is a little bit too yellow/orange so I decided to toned it down a bit. I also tried to remove his eye bags but it didn't look as good as the original so I decided to keep the eye bags.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome of my final product of the magazine cover.
Here is my magazine cover. (First image 'before', Second image 'after')



On a side note..
I got the texture and some custom fonts from here:

http://amiens-stock.deviantart.com/art/Grunge-Texture-15-81833088?q=boost%3Apopular+grunge+background&qo=121

http://dknucklesstock.deviantart.com/art/Grunge-Texture-99-141306559?q=boost%3Apopular+grunge+background&qo=136

http://www.dafont.com/