My making and designing of my school magazine

As a preliminary task we had to create a school magazine front page. So initially we had to make a draft of what we wanted this to look like and what it would include. We also made a draft of the double page spread of our school magazine, but we were not going on to make this.
After i designed my front cover i begun to then go onto making the real copy on photoshop. This was my first time using photoshop so i found it very hard and confusing at first. I used a txt called Green Peace from the dafont.com website. I had to create different layers in order to give my work a background.

I gave my text effects and gave it drop shadows as this gave the words more depth. I also cropped my main picture to the required size that i needed it to be on my page.