Messing around with the text tool

So I've almost finished the feature pages, and I'm nearly finished on the front cover. It's just a matter of getting together a few more photos - I really should have taken more when I had the chance.

Well, no biggie. I've got about two images to work with for when I eventually get around to the contents page, so it's all good.

Basically all I've been doing in photoshop has been messing around with the text tool, adding different styles of font and making sure everything aligns using the "view -> show -> grid" as a guideline. I'm focussing more on the actual look of the magazine, making sure it has style and is pleasing to the eye, rather than making it technically good. Probably not what I should be doing if I'm to get good marks.

But yeah, here's what I've got so far for the cover. It's literally just fonts, a gradient, and a single use of the ellipsis tool to make the little circle for the "FREE" thing.

Disclaimer: you don't actually get anything free with this magazine.

Yeah, I just have to add something in the middle. Y'know,
like, the main thing on the front cover. No biggie.