Adding More Detail While Staying Basic

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This is our end goal.

For some people this may not look hard. For a beginner it may seem like a lot though. 

The upside about Photoshop is a lot of it can be copy and paste once you get it set when it comes to these types of graphics. Let's start with the background:

This is easy enough to do! Just choose to fill the main background with a color. You then can insert the logo (File, New, Open File) in a separate page. Use that tool that allows you to drag to bring it to the layout you are working on. In order to fade out the logo, I changed the opacity as is seen below:

It's nice to play around with this until you find what you like. For my purpose, the logo was not needed because of the text over it, but I chose to add it to put the team's logo on the work and also to make it look cooler. 

The next task was adding a picture. First of all, always try to find a flattering picture in these situations. Go through the same process to put the player picture into the graphic you are working with like we did above. If you have to change the size of the picture, make sure to link the proportions on top!

* A short cut to help you size pictures: when you bring the picture on the graphic you will notice the borders. click one of the boxes located on the side or corners and it will automatically bring you to transforming pictures *

 In order to get that shadow between the background and the picture, you want to add a Blending Option to the picture. Right click on the layer you want to use, in this case the picture, and choose blending options. You can play around with the different options, but I usually lean towards Outer Glow or Drop Shadow. These will the the illusion that the picture is floating over the background. 

This then brings us the remainder of the writing of the left side. It may seem like a lot, but once you get the first two parts done it will be a walk in the park!