I started off with the original shot of me in an urban environment.






Next I used levels, curves and the burn tool to simply manipulate the colours used.

Here I began to manipulate the background layer using the bucket tool to fill it with solid black.

After filling the background layer with solid black with 100% opacity, I then created a new layer on top of that and loaded a photograph of a wall I took onto it, once loaded I knocked the opacity down to around 40% in order for the solid black fill to show through.

Here I simply inserted text for the title that I named "THE URBAN DISTRICT", which seems appropriate for the image I had created for the cover.