For this assignment (4 stars) we had to use Photoshop or Pixlr to create a photo mashup of our 3 favorite holidays. For this I chose Christmas, Halloween, and The 4th of July. I chose to use Photoshop because I had already had the trial downloaded onto my computer. I had never used Photoshop to this extent before and it took a little bit to become aware of how to use the layers. There are some awesome tutorials online on how to use Photoshop layers that you can find here. I made sure all of my photos were transparent by using the Lunapic transparent tool found here. Then used the layers to add photos as needed in a separate layer until I was satisfied with my ending photo.

The second part of the assignment was to tell the story behind the masterpiece I created and why I created it. I love Halloween because it gives children, and even adults to be something that they life. I feel like it’s a time for everyone to be something they aspire to be, or just be plain silly. It allows you to step out of your comfort zone and not be yourself for one night. Then there Christmas. This is probably my favorite time of year. Not because of the gifts, but because of the family spirit and quality time that I get to spend with everyone. I feel like it puts everyone in a better mood and everyone is festive. Last but not least, The 4th of July. I love this day because my family usually gets together to cook out and spend more time together to celebrate America and commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 by the Continental Congress.

So below you will get to see my snowman decorated with all of my favorite holidays! I wanted to make sure I did enough work to constitute the star rating I got, so I made sure to add in enough and balance it out. More work for more stars. (:

I hope you enjoy my masterpiece!

I completed the 4-star “Holiday Mashup” assignment (was rated 4 1/2, I rated it 3). I have some experience with mixing holidays; when my mom came home for R&R during her first deployment, we celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, my parents’ anniversary, and New Year’s Day all in one weekend– Thanksmasversary Year.

My personal three favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter– so that’s what I combined, using Norman Rockwell’s Freedom from Want as a base. Then, I used Paint to add in Santa hats on the heads and Easter Eggs on the conveniently placed plates.

I’m actually pretty happy with how this turned out? I immediately thought of this picture as the basis for my mashup. It’s such a classic image, and it’s kinda become the mental picture of Thanksgiving. I’m very glad that the Santa hats turned out as well as they did; they were the part I was most concerned about.

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy Easter!

Im ready for my close up -4stars- #MashupAssignments1945

I made this graphic on Microsoft power point. I always enjoy utilizing Microsoft Powerpoint because the program has has a really cool feature with pictures AND videos assessable to anyone who has the program. Under “Format Picture” there is an option to “remove background”. This gives you the option to cut from any photo. I like using powerpoint because I don’t have to worry about things like margins or overlay.

pineapple on pizza is a sin. #ds106 #MashupAssignments1945 pic.twitter.com/vxZkpuZ0gk

— abby hunt (@abbissss) November 11, 2016

REMIX+2stars-Bootcamp it.

My mans over here calling in a drone strike on the pineapple pizza….

Woho!!!! Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up ya’ll! Its that time of year. This is my holiday mashup. My three favorite holidays are Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! I created this graphic in a photo shop app on my iPad called Faceover. It was on one dollar too! Santa’s sleigh is being steered by the easter bunny, who has a trunk full of turkey dinner!!! yum!! lol. I hope you enjoy my creativity!

In this mashup, there seems to be an issue with the holiday calendars for 2016.  Everyone thinks its their holiday.

In this assignment, I struggled finding images that were comparable with the photo background.  I really wanted to get a turkey that looked like it was going to eat the Easter Eggs.

A simple enough assignment, taking elements of your 3 favorite holidays, and combining them into one image. If it wasn’t clear, I went with Halloween, Christmas, and Independence Day. I’ve always been a fan of Halloween; I love the combination of Autumn weather and the atmosphere around the holiday. Christmas is associated with family and vacations; as I’ve grown older, I care less about the gifts and more about spending time with the people I love. Fourth of July has always been a ton of fun, and is a nice patriotic holiday; another big family event day. I found three transparent images on Google, brought them into Photoshop, resized them, and layered them correctly. Not much to it!

For this assignment (4 stars), we had to mash our three favorite holidays into one picture! I chose Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and Christmas. I chose Thanksgiving because I love all the food and time you get to spend with family. I chose Christmas because it’s my favorite time of the year! I love all the lights, carols, happy spirits and time you spend with family. And lastly, the Fourth of July because I am from the beach so it’s one of the best times of the summer. Every Fourth we wake up and spend the entire day and night on the beach and wait to watch the fireworks over the ocean. I have been doing it all my life and it’s definitely one of my favorite traditions!

In order to complete this assignment, I used the app Fotobom and just cropped all these images onto the fireworks. It was fairly easy because the app is dummy proof. I also created a tutorial for this assignment so others can navigate the app for this assignment and other photoshops!

For this Assignment we had to put our three holidays together in one picture. I ended up using just my Mac Preview for it, because I don’t know how to use photoshop or anything else that is fancy. This assignment was worth 3 1/2 starts. I would give it 4 just because it was kind of hard, to put the photos together, and its extra hard for the people who aren’t tech savvy.