DVD Game Cover

We had a task to create boxart for an an already existing game based for a modern platform. The game I chose was LSD: Dream Emulator. This is an obscure PlayStation game which was released only in Japan in 1998. I chose this game as I found it to be very intriguing and an overall good choice to make box art of.

Box art I created for LSD: Dream Emulator

We were given a template for the DVD case. I decided for banners, I'll use PlayStation 3 banners. As there is already box art for LSD: Dream Emulator of the original PlayStation, I thought why not make box art for the PS3?
Onto the creation of the box art itself..
I got images of box art of already existing Ps3 games and the screenshots on the back are screenshots from the actual game. The LSD logo was taken from the original game cover aswell as the four icons surrounding it. It was relatively simple cutting and pasting the logo onto my box art. I used the magnetic lasso tool to rip the logos and icons onto my cover. I then pasted it as a new layer onto the cover.
Everything else, like the PEGI logos,developer logos etc were taken from the internet and I just pated and resised the so they would necessarily fit onto the box art. The man on the cover (he is known as the grey man), was a little more complex to put onto the cover.
I got a screenshot of the game online of the scene featuring the grey man, and I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut the grey man out of the scene. I made a silhouette of the grey man.
To create the silhouette, I made a new layer above the image, then I used the paint bucket tool on the new layer so it covered up the entire image. I then held the 'alt' key and chose the coloured layer which put that and my image together, making a black silhouette.
The rest of it (like the text on the back and the side of the case) I created myself using the text tool. And the background for nthe front cover, I blended different shades of dark blue which got darker at the bottom which ultimately ended up being black, which is where the silhouette of the grey man rises.