The Front Page - The Background

I decided not to use a natural background for the front cover. The reason for this is that I wanted to make the character of 'Zayne England' to have a feel of mystery. To do this, the character is facing away from the camera and the background is black with an ominous blue spotlight shining toward the audience. Zayne's true face will be 'revealed' later inside the magazine during his interview as the interviewer finds out who 'Zayne' really is.

This effect was done by creating a layer between the background and the other layers and adding a radial gradient to the top-centre of the page in a deep blue colour.