Transparency Dad in Army

Here is my entry for Mixed Media Monday.
This is a scrapbook page of my Dad in the army. I did this about 5 years ago when I first got into scrapping. I made the photos of the Arc de Triomphe and Norte Dame into transparencies. This, however, is not how the page looks in person. When I scanned it into the computer, I did not like it at all. It's way too plain, so I went to work in photoshop. All I did was smudge it up a little with a brush. I think it looks more like a collage now.