Book cover

 

This is my version of the book cover. Some of the tools I used to recreate this book page were, the quick selection tool, which cut out the hands and the butterfly from the image they were in previous to the title page. I also used the square marquee tool to create a black box at the bottom then pulled upwards using the gradient tool to create the effect of it fading. I changed the hands to black and white, then  made a separate layer over top and changed the opacity to get the blue color. The weird looking ink spot was created by using the brush tool on a spongy looking brush setting. The last thing I did was add the text with the glow effect around it. I did this by clicking on the layer I wanted to add glow to, then go to the layer tab, down to layer style, style settings, select glow, outer glow and the I changed the size I wanted.