First, here's the cover. The original photo was one used by Brady Poirier in the Photoshop classes I once took; he used this to teach us how to turn a daytime picture into a nighttime one and add Christmas lights. This time, I wanted to "repaint" the house pink to match the honoree's nickname. I did so by selecting the house and use hue and saturation to change the color. Some extra pixels remained, so I use the brush to hide them from the layer mask. From there, I opened the final result from Photoshop into my InDesign file, which is easy to do since both Photoshop and InDesign are part of the same Creative Suite made by the same company (as I posted last month).
Next is an "ad" for Bentonville Speedway, a 4/10-mile short track whose clay/dirt surface is reminiscent of the very first stock-car race tracks ever built, in the 1940s. Its location would be near the Bentonville Battlefield, site of one of the very last major battles of the American Civil War. It's significant because it is the first time I have ever visually depicted Buddy Wayne as a race-car driver. To do this, I placed B.W.'s face on top of a hat taken from a photograph of ARCA Racing Series driver Thomas Praytor, with Praytor's uniform beneath it. The other three "drivers" are portrayed in their entireties by the real thing: unknown (no longer available on the ARCARacing.com site, but saved on my hard drive as Bubba Sparks, not to be confused with the rapper), Austin Wayne Self, and Sarah Cornett-Ching. The race track is East Lincoln Speedway in Stanly, NC and the car, used in the U.S. Legends Car series, has a vintage 1930s look. I adapted the logo of Richmond International Raceway by removing the stylized "R" and using the track's name. Finally, the address and phone number are actually that of a local pig farm.
