Holiday Mashup

For this assignment, I was instructed to use a photo editing software to mashup my top three favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. I was instructed to use whatever elements I liked from each holiday, creating a character or scene with the images/symbols I chose. Lastly, I was supposed to tell a story with the image. Below is my creation and the steps I took to create it:

This assignment was fairly easy and quick for me to do. I immediately knew my top three holidays are: Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. I was able to tell somewhat of a story with the magnitude/size of each holiday representation. Christmas is my #1, thus the Santa Claus is the biggest and focal point of the creation. Halloween is my #2, thus I decided to pick an image that had three elements to it (hoping that it would indicate more importance than the turkey did). Lastly, Thanksgiving is my #3, thus why I chose a fairly simple image to represent it. Below are my steps:

1. I googled Santa Clause, then Halloween, and lastly Thanksgiving. I saved all of the images you see above (and luckily, all of them were clip art – therefore I didn’t have to edit them at all! They already came with alpha channels).
2. I opened up the Santa Clause image in Gimp first, now the original image had him holding gifts in each hand. So I did have to erase those to clear up his hands to hold the other images.
3. Once I did that, I imported the Halloween and Thanksgiving images, placed them where I wanted them, and boom – I was all done!

Since the holiday season is about to be in full swing I thought what a perfect time to do this assignment. It is worth 4 stars, and is super fun!

To start I picked my three holidays to mashup, I chose Christmas, Forth of July, and Halloween! I love all three holidays. I googled images for each of these holidays to crop together. Here are the originals…

Then I used my favorite editing app Pasteify! Although this app only allows you to crop two images together at one time it is so simple and easy to use that I often use it multiple times!

First I combined the Christmas tree picture and the firework picture together using the standard Pasteify app 3 step system (choosing a background, highlighting the parts of the foreground you want to keep, and combining the two into one cropped image). Then once I had those two images combined into one I used that new image and cropped the pumpkin into it using the same 3 step system within the Pasteify app. It sounds complicated, but it is so simple and took me 5 minutes tops! Here is my final product! I really wanted the image to look like one complete picture. I used the firework for Forth of July as the Christmas tree star, and the Halloween pumpkin as a gift under the tree! I am pretty happy with the overall Holiday Mashup!

For my next mashup assignment I created a “Holiday MashUp.” My three holidays I chose were Christmas, Easter, and Independence Day. Christmas is my absolute most favorite holiday. EVER. I’m so excited to start decorating, but haven’t been able to start yes because I’ve been so busy with school! I also like Easter and Independence Day. Overall, these are my favorite holidays because of the family events that come along with these holidays.
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— Amanda Pennington (@Ms_AmandaP) November 12, 2017