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The goal of this project was to create a collage in Photoshop using at least 15 images of living things. I cut out each image from its background, doing my best to make sure the outline was not too harsh or too blurry. Then, I arranged the images. I had to make sure they overlapped each other perfectly with no white space in the background while also attempting to make sure colors were spread out across the image in a pleasing way- for example, having green in opposite corners and surrounding a dark object like the tapir with lighter objects like the frog and flowers. My overall theme was rainforest/jungle creatures, making the panda a bit of an outlier, but too adorable to resist.

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