Further Progress

Here is my further progress of my cover art.

At the first glance we can see that I've added the title of the game and PAL logo on the spine as well as the age rating logos. I chose this name as it will be closely linked to the theme of the game while the age rating of 18 reflects the content that the game would have including: strong violence, bad language, sexual references, etc.

I've also added formal things: bar code, legal info and PS sign. I've placed them in the designated area; the white rectangle at the bottom of the back cover. This is because nearly all video games have this information present in this area and so placing these elsewhere would be weird for me as well as the potential buyers.

Now the best bit. I've modified the back cover image by adding the shadows using paint brush on a new layer while lowering its opacity to make it look more subtle. I also added the light rays effect representing the sunshine using filters. Now the image looks much more realistic with more life to it than it originally had which was exactly my aim.

I've managed to do this partially thanks to the photoshop tutorial I've found which explained step by step on how to create light rays.

Now the only things left to do are: title (front), description (back), pictures (back) and more logos :)

References

"Add Rays of Light" Tutorial
PEGI rating: https://www.google.co.uk/
Barcode image: https://www.google.co.uk/
Playstation stamp: https://www.google.co.uk/