Post-Production: Magazine background progress 5

• Unfortunately, granger games had there window smashed. I noticed how the window was smashed so I asked a shop workers permission to take an image of the authentic crack. The reason I asked was that the previous magazine front covers background was an image from the internet. After finding out the internet image wouldn't pass, I decided to think of using another magazine background. Instead, the unfortunate event gave me the opportunity to take a photo of the crack and use if for my magazine front cover background.
• The background is shown below:

The changes I made:

1. I opened the crack photograph into a separate Photoshop document.
2. I changed the filter into black and white so that my magazine features would still be visible.
3. Then I used the smudge tool to blend the background so that the photographs original location was not visible.
4. The distorted smudge effect also compliments the main coverlines narrative as the character Dan suffers from personal issues like anger management and aggression.
5. The crack photograoh only covers one side of the magazine so then I rotated the edited cracked glass photograph and placed that layer on the other side of the magazine. Then I expanded the image until the background was covered.
6. The two background images looked like they were pieced together so I linked the layers and used the blur tool to blur certain areas.
7. Then I lowered the backgrounds opacity.
8. I decided to get rid of the box that goes behind the main coverline.
9. The last change was to move the parts of the "pug," being the barcode and the magazines URL.