Lesson 6 redux

OK, I put the collage together again (it's not exactly the same, but it's pretty close (I like the original arrangement better, but I only had about an hour to re-do this...off to hockey now!). The REAL difference is I saved a larger image (yes, it's considerably more than 50k, even with only medium resolution), but you can zero in on details now.

Given more time, I can turn this into the original (only larger); I now understand the tools (at least THESE tools) pretty well.

:)

Blue Group: Lesson 6

This could have many more doo-dads (if I had a range of clipart and a lot of time, I can see how I could dress this up with cartoon balloons and anchors and whatnot), but I like it. It's got the kids sleeping, dreaming of what I want to do! Heaven knows if it's what they'd like to do, but (now here's the tricky logic) THEY SAY (whoever "they" might be) that parents dream through their kids, so...

I used some maps and the sailboat and the cover illustration from the Arthur Ransome Society website (I'm a huge Arthur Ransome fan), and, of course, you've seen the sleeping kids on another project. The background texturing was really very fun and simple (maybe simple equals fun?), and the dropshadows on the two photos lifts them off of the dream-world background.

:)