For my Freestyle Collage No. 61, the theme is a force represented by a man. He's in deep thought while watching over the land. My inspiration for this collage theme was an interesting free-sourced photo I discovered. Pairing it with my pure fractal I created in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X created a landscape that looked as if it naturally fit and should have been a part of the image. That's the beauty of layering.
Once I determined the fractal and thinking man image fit, I wanted to utilized an LMAC image. I chose the one from LMAC Round 190. I love working with landscape images. It's like a blank canvas where you can add any elements to change the feature.
Source
Below are the additional images I included to complete my theme.
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Giraffe with large eye Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Alien tree branches Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Alien sitting down Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Eagle in flight Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei
Gull standing Contributed to the #LIL by @digitalis
To blend the images, I uploaded all into Canva, my design program. This program affords me features such as background removal, resizing, repositioning, colorizing, duplicating, overlays, and various filtering.
Below are my procedures:
To a blank, white canvas, I added the primary background image of a man's head transposed over a mountain range.
I switched the canvas background to black. I knew I wanted to use the left side of the screen for the LMAC landscape, so I left space by only resizing the primary background mountain image three-fourths of the canvas, then duplicating it.
Added LMAC landscape image.
Removed background from the LMAC landscape image. Resized and positioned it to the left side of the screen. Duplicated, then colorized the pieces.
Added my beautiful leaves fractal.
Removed background of leaves fractal and positioned it in the bottom landscape portion.
Added the birds. Removed backgrounds where necessary.
Added giraffe, placed it in the man's eye. Added two other alien being. This completed the collage
I share my completed collage for FreeStyle No. 61:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.
CONTEST RULES
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a weekly photography and collage contest. |
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| Who created the contest? | @shaka is the contest owner. |
| What type of contest is it? | This Contest utilizes a single photo provided by the contest owner as the basis for you to create your own photo collage by adding to the photo provided. |
| What are the rules? | 1. Use as your starting point for your collage the photography provided by the contest owner. It is located on the contest owner's post for free use without any copyright protection. |
| 2. Entries are required to be posted to the LMAC community and must contain a link to the contest post. | |
| 3. Entries need to set the LMAC account (@lmac) as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.; | |
| 4. Extra support with the LMAC trail to all collages where LIL assets have been included AND the respective LIL-contributors set as 2% beneficiaries; | |
| 5. By submitting your contribution you agree that your artwork remains public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission. | |
| 6. Any graphical element that is added to the photography either needs to be your own original work (e.g. own artwork or photography) OR needs to derive from sites whitelisted by LMAC. | |
| 7. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote. | |
| 8. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected. | |
| What do you win? | Prizes listed on the contest owner's post. |
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.
