September FREEBIE Challenge (2023)

[Cassel]

Freebies are great resources that you can find in many places to build a library of elements, graphics, and tools. Since they are free, they are available to all.

For this challenge, I would love to see how you can use the fence available on the store blog.

Grab this fence HERE. How will you use this fence?

[Sheila Hogg]

Just playing with the September freebie and added it to a photo taken a couple of weeks ago when we were away for a few days. The photo is of Coughton Court (https://www.coughtoncourt.co.uk/). We have been here a few times but we were lucky to visit early so not many people around. Made fro a very pleasant day out. I did have to tinker with the photo though and remove a certain person from it so did a lot of cloning and a tad of artistic licence. Anyway, thanks for looking.

[Suzy]

That's just perfect, Sheila! Is Coughton Court still the home of the Throckmortons?  There was a daffodil show there for at least a few years, maybe 2014-2018?  because the American, Dr. TomThrockmorton, was a Daffodil VIP and breeder. I think they wanted to get a broad array of his originations growing there for display purposes.

Edited September 13, 2023 by Suzy

[Cristina]

Here is my contribution to this challenge. The photo is from a Biergarten we like to go to when the weather is nice and warm... not so much this year.

I added Markus to the layout in a different way it is meant to be used, as I don't have a "real" Markus to take to places. ? 

I used a technique from the 2018 Popup Masterclass.

[Sheila Hogg]

8 hours ago, Suzy said:

That's just perfect, Sheila! Is Coughton Court still the home of the Throckmortons?  There was a daffodil show there for at least a few years, maybe 2014-2018?  because the American, Dr. TomThrockmorton, was a Daffodil VIP and breeder. I think they wanted to get a broad array of his originations growing there for display purposes.

Thank you Suzy. I don't think they own it now but I might be wrong. I should have paid more attention to the guides but was more engrossed with looking around.

[Ann Seeber]

I had a photo obscured by haze, so I used the PSP tool to remove the haze, added a PSP frame, the cass-fence freebie, a couple of picture tube trees and ended up with this, "White-Tail Doe with Triplets." (Guess what? Markus showed up!)

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Ann Seeber
add Markus

[Sue Thomas]

21 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

I had a photo obscured by haze, so I used the PSP tool to remove the haze, added a PSP frame, the cass-fence freebie, a couple of picture tube trees and ended up with this, "White-Tail Doe with Triplets." (Guess what? Markus showed up!)

 

Does the doe have a black tip on its tail, or is it  the fence.  I'm only curious.

[Ann Seeber]

1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:

Does the doe have a black tip on its tail, or is it  the fence.  I'm only curious.

On closer examination, I'd say that black is the fence; looking between her back legs. 

[Julie Magerka]

Here's my "freebie" challenge layout.

[Anne Lamp]

Poor Kitty Cat. It only wants to get home for it's dinner.

 

Edited September 17, 2023 by Anne Lamp

[Anja Pelzer]

here is my work with the fence

for the fence I made a big shadow on its own layer, mirrored vertical and use the shear tool for perspective, added gaussian blur and reduced opacity

[Anne Lamp]

22 minutes ago, Anja Pelzer said:

here is my work with the fence

for the fence I made a big shadow on its own layer, mirrored vertical and use the shear tool for perspective, added gaussian blur and reduced opacity

Figuring out how to get that shadow just right must have taken a lot of thought and work. It turned out great.

[Anja Pelzer]

46 minutes ago, Anne Lamp said:

Figuring out how to get that shadow just right must have taken a lot of thought and work. It turned out great.

I looked some video-masterclasses I won last week, and so I had the idea to do something with the fence. 

[Natalie Spooner]

Hello everyone, I'm enjoying seeing your creative juices at work, for some reason my reaction button is not working, but I do like what I see! ?

Here is my take on the Freebie Challenge Wood Fence, a happy accident to start!  I had placed Carole's  fence on the plain raster layer and then when I went to fill in the background on the under layer with the fence layer open it did not fill behind the fence...so I took it as a sign to create a silhouette and went from there. The paper I created myself from round about trials and really no idea where it was going. I did set out to create the film strip (vector shape and square eraser brush tip) and convoluted it into a mask of sorts ( need to continue the mask class!) and saved it as a paint tube. I think that's what I love most about this program the playing around with colour and shape until you get something you like.

Fonts: Back to Love (label) With you forever (Nara) Elements: from PS designers,  Elif Sahrin (heart paint spatter), Gina Jones (yarn ball) Jessica Dunn (plaid label) Marisa Lerin (all the rest)