Learning how to make an album cover using photoshop

We are re-creating this cover using photoshop




















How we did it:

• Cropped outside of original image until it was only the face remaining. Used the posterise tool to do this. This flattened the image.
• Then selected black ad white tool to make the picture black and white.
•  I then lowered the tone to level 2 so there was less detail in the image,
• I then used the drag and drop tool to insert the crying image. I used the magic wand tool to rasterise the layer so there is only red left. 
• I then got rid of the white background and changed the angle of the picture to make it seem more like she is crying. 
• Then used rubber tool to shape the tears to make it seem realistic. 
• Then used colour balance tool to change the colour of the tears to blue from red. 
• Then used ellipse tool to create circles. 
• Made the circles the correct colour and duplicated the layer 9 times so i was left with the 10 circles i needed.
• Then dragged the circles to the correct places like they are in the original poster. 
• Finally changed opacity to 60% to make the circles transparent.