Hello LMAC and Hive members. @shaka, now holds a monthly contest with participants having the ability to submit multiple entries during that month for consideration. If you'd like to join in this monthly round for December with a due date of ?, visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 221 - ✨100 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
I wanted to share with you my Entry #1 collage for LMAC Round 221.
My theme consisted of celebrating the holiday, especially Christmas. In preparing my theme, I wanted to focus on the fact that individuals are different in how they approach holidays and celebrate them, if at all. With that individuality, I chose to focus on items that meant more to a young lady than receiving gifts. It's the spirit of the holiday. She plans to spend the holidays with like-minded friends skiing and country-hopping. That way, she can see first-hand how other cultures celebrate the holidays.
Below are the images I included to complete my theme:
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| Item | Contributor | Source |
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| LMAC Round 221 - Original Contest Image | @lmac | Link |
| Woman in black | Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66 | Link |
| Black and white hat | Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore | Link |
| Merry Christmas words | Pixabay | Link |
| Penguins | Pixabay | Link |
| Reindeer - white with red bow | Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore | Link |
| Deer sitting | Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore | Link |
| String lights | Pixabay | Link |
| Two girls in Christmas bows | Pixabay | Link |
| Christmas stars | Pixabay | Link |
| Red Christmas Ornament | PurePNG | Link |
| Elegant Curved Flower | Contributed to the #LIL by @borjan | Link |
| Green Christmas Ornament | PurePNG | Link |
| Fungus | Contributed to the #LIL by @bayuismail | Link |
| Red Christmas stocking | Contributed to the #LIL by @donroberts | Link |
| White Rainbow Christmas Tree | Contributed to the #LIL by @donroberts | Link |
| Gold Christmas Ornament | PurePNG | Link |
| Wolly Thistle Flower | Contributed to the #LIL by @borjan | Link |
| Alien Christmas ornament | Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66 | Link |
| Inflorescence of Salvia farinacea flowers | Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex | Link |
| Pure Fractal titled "Purple Cone" | @justclickindiva | Link |
I then utilized Canva to blend the different type images. Below are my steps in which I added different 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.
- To a blank, white canvas, I added the free Canva purple background with the containers that resembled perfume bottles. I hoped they would make perfect placeholders for Christmas items. They certainly did, and all turned out nicely with the items I placed inside.
- Added the female, her hat, accessories, Christmas items, children, and animals, colorizing, positioning and resizing them on the screen. I loved how the hate held the make-shift decorated Christmas tree. I accomplished this with a simple plant and several ornaments.
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Below is my completed collage for LMAC Round 221, Entry #1:
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.
