CD Cover - Photoshop

I have created my own CD cover in Photoshop. First I added the name of the song - Old School - and the name of the group - Nature's Hero's. I chose a font that was already on Photoshop rather than downloading my own, I chose to do this because I think it suits the name of the group and the name of the song. I made it green simply because the group is called 'Nature's' Hero's and the colour green is associated with nature. I added the stroke effect and drop shadow effect to the text; this makes it stand out more and adds energy to it because if these effects were not added the text would just look plain and boring.
For the background I used the gradient tool in every corner and added 3 different brushes that I downloaded from www.brusheazy.com. To download these brushes I searched the website until I found one that I wanted to use then I clicked on it, then clicked download, then I clicked on the file in the folder and chose to extract it and then I saved it in my brushes folder that I created. After this process I had to load it on Photoshop so I could use it; to do this I had to click on the Brush tool on Photoshop, then at the top of the program there was a drop down menu for the brush tool, I clicked this then on the drop down menu there was another drop down menu which I then clicked on, from this menu I clicked on load brushes and chose the brushes I had downloaded and from this I could use them on Photoshop. Once I had all the brushes I downloaded in Photoshop I freely used them trying to create something I found appealing; I think the cover I have created looks like tie-dye which I think looks good.