When adding news articles about the latest issue, or adding supplementary data it is nice to have a thumbnail of the journal cover. Here's what I do:
Step 1
Shrink cover to a bitmap 128 pixels wide.
Step 2
In Photoshop create a new image with a width of 140 pixels and a height of 180 pixels.
Step 3
Paste in the cover thumbnail. Add a drop shadow to the layer (Layer -> Layer Style -> Drop Shadow).
The resulting cover will look something like this:
or to scale:
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