Magazine Fourth Draft - Secondary Articles Bar

I next created a bar of secondary articles taking inspiration again from several Empire magazine articles such as those below


I first used the shape tool to create the bar



I then added a text layer to say "PLUS!" to tell the viewer this is a selection of extra articles


I then grouped all of the layers that made up the base of the strip



I took two photos for for my strip, and got the other from a screenshot from my film, here are the images


I wanted to create the effect that the heads of each person were coming out of the bar, to achieve this I duplicated each photo for a top and bottom layer

For the bottom of each I cropped the top of the image off


For the top of each I used the magic lasso tool to remove the background


Here you can see both together with the top of the image placed on top


I placed a black bar between the layers to give the effect I wanted



Here is the images with the base of the bar visible again


I then added on space for the text for each secondary article


Lastly I added the text, creating a text layer for each article


I grouped the text and background of each article together so they could be moved around easily


Here is the finished strip


EB