Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share with you my current freestyle collage. If you'd like to join in the regular contests, visit Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 233 - ✨25 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
I love nature themes, so for this design, it entails a small child who befriends a squirrel. In their encounter, she offers the animal a gift. The pine cone is a welcome site.
In preparing my theme, I was fortunate to discover a lovely free-sourced image of a child playing in water in which she encounters a squirrel. The expression on both their faces are precious. It inspired me to utilized the item in the girl's hand to transform to a cone to match the one on the contest post.
I then colored the cone purple. A soothing and serene hue. I used a pure fractal I created in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X.
Below are the steps I utilized in Canv, my design program, a to blend the different type images. I envisioned using the photo of the girl and squirrel as the background looming large in the scene.
I began with a blank, white canvas, then added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, resizing, duplicating, colorizing, and repositioning items as needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
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The images I included to complete my theme are listed below.
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Girl and squirrel ~ Abstract turtle ~ Tree branch ~ Forest trees ~ Tree root ~ Pure fractal titled "Turtle" ~ Truck with pine pine cone on bed - Contributed to the #LIL by @m1alsan
Below is my completed freestyle collage.
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 monthly photography and collage contest where monthly entries can be submitted. |
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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 collages 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.
Si se incluye traducción, uso DeepL para ayudar a mis lectores.
Gracias por su paciencia y comprensión.