Creating My Collage

I got the idea to create a Christmas type of photo that looked like my child and her doggie, so I found a picture of my Christmas tree in my living room after decorating it. Then I scanned a photo of my daughter that was a picture from my parents house. For my internet photo I took a picture of a dog from flickr and added that in the collage as our pet.

I thought that this was going to be more difficult at first, and perhaps being the reason for procrastinating on finding an idea or something interesting to do for this project. I am really involved with children, and this is something that I am so passionate about myself, so I really wanted to do something with my daughter or family. Christmas was one of the most recent times I used my camera, and I found a great pic of my tree. Next, I was able to scan in the photo of my daughter, and I could "cut" around it to outline only my daughter, then "shrink" her and add her in to look like she was in front of the tree. We have a dog at home, but she is a yellow lab. I decided it would be fun to add in a different kind of dog (also a pic was needed from the internet). So I found a picture of a puppy and again outlined it and put it in my original photo.

I have used photoshop a lot before but have not done a whole lot working with layers. This was more fun and a challenge to figure out how to get this working the way I wanted it to. I figured out the correct way to work on sizing and also to move things around to get them to look more realistic. This was a fun project, and easier than I thought it might have been. Photoshop is a fun program to work with.