For my Freestyle Collage No. 76, my theme is a jungle environment. The landscape is masked with mysterious animals and other creatures, both human and non-human. An array of hues glisten in the night's dark sky. Shadows cast upon the river reflect the eerie shapes weaving through the murky waters. As Shenyvia peers from the tall tree, she scours her territory.
At present, all is quiet.
In approaching the design of my freestyle collage, I wanted to highlight an unusual pure fractal I created using the upgraded fractal rendering software, Apophysis 7X. Immediately upon seeing the final design after applying the variations, I noticed the image resembled an array of various flowers. A perfect jungle.
To accompany the jungle in the top portion of my scene, for the landscape bottom half I desired a water feature. I located a suitable one in the LMAC Community.
Since my pure fractal is colorful, I decided to only include a few other images that wouldn't interfere with the other colors. Below are the remaining images:
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Eyes by Placidplace at Pixabay
Woman by sipa at Pixabay
Two butterflies Contributed to the #LIL by @edgarafernandezp
Little Egret standing Contributed to the #LIL by @digitalis
Alien Worm #3 Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg
Finally, to compile the images, I uploaded all into Canva, my design program. With my upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription, you can view the tools at my disposal in my procedures below.
To a blank, white canvas, I added my pure flower fractal.
Realized I would need to switch the canvas background to black. I then resized then repositioned my jungle fractal to fill half the screen. Duplicated it so that the entire jungle would encompass the background.
Added the landscape image. Removed background and some parts of the image I didn't want to include in the scene.
Added filter to the landscape image to resemble a body of water. Duplicated the image, then positioned them at the bottom. Added the eyes. Removed background. Next I added the female image inside the eye round space.
Added the butterflies bird, and alien worm. Removed background of bird; repositioned and resized them. Completed project.
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 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.
