Creating Money-Making Covers In Photopea | 7 Best Tips

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Magazine cover titled 'Influencer' featuring a young woman in casual attire sitting on stairs, looking at her phone. The cover includes sections on online business, influencer tips, and social media strategies.

Written By Bonny Isselt.

Creating money-making covers in Photopea requires a whole lot of practice. You make the design on point every time you make changes to it. The best approach is to learn basic design principles that are circulating on the internet. 



In the context of product design, that includes listing prices and different models. That must be the goal, so learn to present them as best you can.

Before starting with Photopea, a Photoshop alternative, you must get layers and how to work with them. 

Because Photopea is free, it means the level of learning must be simple, and later on, you can level up your edits quickly.

In this tutorial, I make it simple for you so you can follow along. I use Canva Pro for the icons. With Canva Pro, you can design fast and create stunning plus professional designs.


[VIDEO] Creating Money-Making Covers In Photopea

Start from the beginning

If you want to educate yourself in graphic design using free tools. You should watch and read tutorials and blogs about it. But here are the steps you should take to create similar content.

You start at the base without editing and look ahead to what the purpose is of what you are going to design.

Slowly edit and make adjustments and prep yourself with the best fonts and colors. So you can design much faster in the future.

A young woman sitting on a stone ledge, taking a selfie with her smartphone. She is wearing a silver top, a red plaid jacket, light blue jeans, and black ankle boots, with a baseball cap covering her long hair. The street is lined with buildings and people in the background.

Start at the base of the raw picture. Found this on Canva.com.


Step 1: Choosing the font style, size, and colors.

A digital workspace in a photo editing application showing a woman sitting on a cobblestone street, taking a selfie. The word 'Influencer' appears prominently in bold yellow font, labeled as Anton Regular at size 320 px.

Step 2: Create lower thirds using shapes opacity 68%.

A woman sitting on a ledge in a city, holding a smartphone, with a stylish outfit and cap. The word 'Influencer' is prominently displayed in bold yellow text above her.

Step 3: Select the font and place the layer in front of the lower third shape.

A magazine cover design featuring the word 'Influencer' in large yellow text with a woman sitting on a sidewalk, taking a selfie. The background showcases a city street.

Step 4: Select the font Komika Display Kap and place the layer on the right.

Screenshot of a photo editing software interface showing text editing options and a preview of a magazine cover titled 'Influencer'.

Step 5: Repeat the shape layer.

Screenshot of a photo editing interface displaying a magazine cover titled 'Influencer' with a woman on the cover, alongside editing tools and instructions.

Step 6: Use the same font style from Step 2 and repeat it to create H3.

Screenshot of a photo editing interface showing a magazine cover design, with highlighted text instructions for font style and size.

Step 7: The final part.

This design is coming to an end keep the font style the same. But you can use any font, size, and style.

Screenshot of an online photo editing tool showcasing the cover design of an 'Influencer Magazine' with text editing options visible.

Conclusion

Making magazine covers in Photopea requires a lot of practice. If you want to be a graphic designer, then free tools and tutorials like this one can launch your career.

Make it easy to start at the basics with fonts and slowly level up. You can also read this blog post, so you can see the design options you can do with Photopea.

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