Second Attempt Front Cover

This above is my second attempt at creating a front cover on photoshop, even-though I have been on photoshop at least four times I am still finding it hard and being incapable of producing a good front cover/contents page. Above is just a basic front cover and where things should be placed if I had done a real one. For my real front cover for my magazine I might use this layout and it is sufficient in what is doing and it looks professional. Comparing this to my first attempt of a front cover with Jarvis Cocker this looks, in my opinion, a lot better. My thinking behind this is that there is no silly background colours and that there is more information on this one compared to the Jarvis Cocker one.