For my Freestyle Collage No. 64, my theme is "Watchful Eyes", I wanted to have a bit of fun today as I was feeling better this week. A sinus infection caught hold of me and wouldn't let go. But I'm better now. I discovered an awesome and fun free-sourced image I knew would lighten my spirits and turn out well.
The ever watchful eyesballs are everywhere. The young girl rushed to see how we are faring. Others, not so much. I lean toward those individuals and circumstances that help to brighten my day.
That is, unless it's a sci-fi dark short story brewing in my thoughts.
In creating my playful theme, below is the background fun image with the eyeballs that captured my attention. Also, the landscape image I included took me to a magical sci-fi atmosphere:
I also included a few pure fractals I'd like to highlight.
Next, I added my pure fractals I created in the advanced version of the fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X, that livened up the scene as part of the images attached to the eyeballs and some laying in the landscape.
Below are the additional images I included to complete my theme. The majority of them I retrieved from the LMAC database the #LIL:
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Quarter Moon with flowers by Ridderhof at Pixabay
Flame Angel Fish Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex
Red Octopus Contributed to the #LIL by @yetsimar
Blue green eye Contributed to the #LIL by @edgarafernandezp
Blue Skull Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Giraffe, tree and monkeys sculpture from Story Garden in Holon Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex
Red Balloon Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex
Brown Angel Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Blue Eye encased in red Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex](http://lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/13672)
To blend the images, I uploaded all into Canva, my design program. With my upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription, I have numerous useful features at my disposal, such as background removal, colorizing, resizing, filtering, duplicating, and image manipulation.
Below are my procedures.
To a blank, white canvas, I added the background image for the girl standing looking out over the horizon.
Duplicated the background eyeball image to fill the canvas.
Added the landscape image; removed background, then duplicated it to fill the bottom portion of the screen.
Added the various playful images, attaching them to the eyeball chains. This completed the project.
Below is my completed freestyle collage:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my FreeStyle Collage No. 64.
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.
