Finalising the front cover

Once I had decided on which colours and styling I liked for the fire on the front cover it was time just to add some information and extra detail to finish it off.


The first component I had to add was the F1 logo this is a registered trademark of Bernie Ecclestone & the FIA.
The importance of having this official logo to the game is massive because at a glance a F1 fan that hasn't seen any advertising could instantly recognise that this is the official game with all the accurate teams and cars within it.


After this I thought that the centre of the cover looked a little bare and a waste of space. So after thinking about what I could do that would add to the image and the information aspects of the cover I decided on a image of a Formula 1 car gearbox.
The reason for this is that the game contains alot of elements around tuning and setup of the car and I felt that the gearbox was a interesting nod towards these more advanced features. 

The way I achieved  the effect of the gearbox floating through the flames was by double clicking on the thumbnail for the gearbox in the layers window which open's the layer style window and from here you can adjust opacity and many other things below.