Magazine Cover

For this photography project I chose to do a pet magazine because I have many animals at my house to choose from.  Taking the pictures of my pets was a real challenge though.  One of my dogs kept jumping up trying to bite my camera.  But the hardest part was the cats; being used to being petted they kept getting right up by the camera lens making it very hard to take the pictures of them.  Once I downloaded all of my pictures to the computer I went through and figured out which pictures I wanted to use for my magazine cover.  Once I was done with that I went onto google and looked for the perfect christmas tree for my background.  There were many to choose from but as you can see the one that I used is my favorite.  I copy and pasted the tree to be the background the magic lassoed my dog because I wanted her to be beside the tree.  Finally I placed the dog beside the tree and adjusted her so it looked like she was actually sitting there.  Then I copy and pasted a few other pictures to make it look like a real magazine cover.  The article by the picture of the cat says, "ONE CAT'S TAIL", which is a pretty good pun if I don't say so myself.  One of the requirements we had was to put a barcode and a price on the cover.  Going onto google I looked for a barcode with a price.  A couple minutes later I finally found the perfect barcode.  One with the barcode and a price.  I copy and pasted it onto the magazine cover.  After all of the pictures and articles where put on the magazine cover I decided it needed a little bit more.  So I selected the picture I wanted to put a border around and then used the paintbrush to color it.  Finally I was done, so I went to layer, flatten image, then saved it as a JPEG, and as you can see that is it.