Imagining Narnia

Remember when it snowed on the poppy field in the movie, Wizard of Oz? Well instead of leading to the Emerald City the poppy field ends at Narnia! I also rather loosely tied Oz and Narnia together because they both have lions. But enough of justifying the WHY of my image! This post is more about HOW I put the photo collage together. It all started when I read this CoffeeShop Narnia Fantasy Art Tutorial for Photoshop/PSE. I use PaintShop Pro X6, but it was easy to adapt the tutorial. I also used free images from Pixabay and a free snow overlay from the Florabella Collection.

Narnia

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I made the photo collage and then had to find a couple of challenges to enter it into: This week's check-in at Creative Everyday and the Show and Tell Art Challenge at Inspiration Avenue.

Is there value in having a following?

I just joined Bloglovin.

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I need to figure out how to make more use of Google Friend Connect, which is on most Blogger blogs, and how it works with Google +. So far I don't use Google +. Does anyone?! I also use Networked Blogs.

To actually read blogs I like the Blogger Dashboard's built in Reading list. But for something more robust, that you can breakdown into categories, I like feedly. When Google Reader shut down a lot of users migrated to feedly.

As I take my art and blogging more seriously I hope all these services will be even more useful. Right now they are giant time suckers. I can hop around all kinds of blogs, wishing I had done this project or that thing to my own blog.