Designing a Thriller Book Cover in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I'll recreate a book cover using the tools in Photoshop. But the catch is that I haven't done this composite before so will be exploring tools as I go, figuring out the best way to do it. So join me as we go through a quick tour of tools in Photoshop for creating an engaging thriller book cover design.
I've gathered up the assets that I ended up using, which you can download below.
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