Using Photoshop to create my front cover

In today's media lesson we uploaded the image that was going to be used on the front cover of our magazine to Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is a programme where you can create magazines, CD covers, Posters etc... After uploading my central image to Photoshop i then had to use the magnetic cutting tool on the left, to enable to remove the image from the back ground. I had to carefully draw around the area of my choice and then clicked on "select", "inverse" this automatically inverses and highlights the background which was then to be deleted. The image left was then used on my front cover.