Stencil Spray Work In Progress

First I chose a picture and insert it into Photoshop.

Then I set the saturation of this picture into -100 which makes it into a black and white picture, and then also set the input level.

After that, I go onto Filter, then to Artistic and go onto Cutout, to make the number of levels into 3, which there is going to be only black, white and grey tones in this picture.

3 layers will be needed, so I used Magic Wand Tool to select the black area to colour it into black, so this is going to be the first and the darkest layer of this picture. And do the same thing to the grey and white area.

 This is the grey area of the picture, then I colour it with black and this is going to be the second layer.

This is the white area of the picture, then I colour it with black and this is going to be the third and last layer.

To use this sprayed portrait as a magazine cover, I colour the 3 layers into different shades of blue.

After fill in the colours onto different layers, by putting all 3 layers into one and so the features of the portrait is visible.

I then added a text box on the top of the magazine cover, which is going to be the masthead 'SUMMIT', and I used pink colour so that it stands out also it contrasts the blue colour of the portrait.

After adding in the masthead, I also add in other texts such as the cover lines, date etc on to the magazine cover. For the cover lines I used the colour pink, white and black to create some contrast on the magazine cover.

Then I used the Brush Tool with the colour white with a new layer and start to stamp onto the texts.