What I decided to do was one of my favorite books called Beautiful Creatures by: Kami Garcia and I wanted to make the background kinda resemble the 1st book with the tree. But in the cover you couldn't really see it so I grabbed a tree from mine and focused on the branches and selected them over to the picture and gave it a Drop Shadow to give it more of a affect to the picture and I did a little work with making it a little transparent.
I used the gradient for the background and used purple and black for it. Then I used a present brush and made the color a dim blue. I enhanced the photo with both levels and curves. The levels I just changed the white to 225 and the curves I set that at an output of -128 and an Input of 116. I extracted part of the tree from a picture of mine and put it in the background. I free transformed the photo to make it look a little smaller then it was. I duplicated this image and messed with the blending modes, I added a drop shadow and I just changed the distance to 95. All I did for the layer style was just add a drop shadow to the words. For the Text I used Monotype Corsiva and put the size at the top one at 30 then the bottom one at 24. Then finally I went to Filter, Render, Lighting Effects. I did the triple shot lights in the background to make it look like it's focusing on what I put in the background.Quick commands I used:
(L) Magnetic Lasso Tool
(E) Background Eraser Tool
(G) Gradient Tool
(T) Text Tool
(Z) Zoom Tool
I thought my end project turned out really nice and it resembles the book. I wanted people to look at it and not understand it. I think it doesn't make any sense which is a good thing. The cover on her book really didn't make sense to me so I wanted to keep it the same. I really like this picture I created and all the drop shadow effects on it.
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