Pineapple Farmer Dude Kaleidoscope
This is my collaboration with @Everlove's Collaborative Art Journey #23! (Wow, 23 already??!! Whoa.)
I started with @Everlove's photo titled "Reflections of a Blessing"
I had so many ideas of what I could do with this image... But, I thought it would be neat to use multiple copies of it and put them together to form a kaliedoscope - type effect. (I LOVE kaliedoscopes!) And, it looks like @Manuel78 had a similar idea with his collaboration, but he ended up with totally different images & effects with his - way cool!! His post is here.
So first I put them all together in Word - 4 of them. So it was like this, although this one is at 50% transparent.
Then I copied that whole thing, turned it 90 degrees and layered it on top. I had to make the top layer somewhat transparent to see the layer underneath. And I ended up putting another non-transparent layer underneath all the layers - so that the transparent layer didn't look transparent at the edges.
And this is when I saw the pineapple dudes. Can you see them? There are 4 of them. They have pink faces, look like they are wearing blue overalls and they have pineapples on their heads.
I decided to add in the pineapples - so you really couldn't miss them.
I created the pineapples using a little program called "Mandalagaba" - which is a tool for making mandalas - but you can make pineapples, too! lol You just have to manipulate the number of axis and decide whether to have it mirror or not. It's a free program online- but if you want to save the images you need to purchase their upgrade. Or you can just take a screenshot, but if you do a screenshot it's fairly low resolution & you don't always get the whole image - but it worked ok here. My 9-year old daughter loves to play with it - so the free version works great for her!
Here's the link to Mandalagaba -in case you want to play around with it.
Then I added the pineapples to my kaleidoscope image - using Photoshop. And voila! I thought about trying to recreate the little dudes too, but I figured they are already pretty visible and interesting as is.
