I love making collages and I love Photoshop. I've been using it on and off for the better part of a decade now; it will always be my favorite digital tool. Also don't you dare think of paying for Photoshop. Email me if you want a way to get it totally legally and not illegally at all. Anyways, enjoy this selection of the things I've made using it over the years!
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Sep.2024 This is another collage that my wife and I collaborated to make. It's a desktop wallpaper dedicated to my beautiful big fat cat, Miss Rita. She's a Nebelung who loves to watch TV and lay upside down on the patio. Her favorite shows are Hell's Kitchen, Home Movies, and those train ride POV videos on YouTube.
Sep.2023 One of the last animated collages I made in the now-defunct Landing app. The wife and I were rewatching the first three Fast and Furious movies at the time, which are all amazing, and I just kept having this recurring thought that Brian should've been a gay character. This collage plays on that thought.
SEP.2023 I made this collage using the now-defunct Landing app. It uses the rat from Fantastic Mr. Fox and some other weird shit I found on Pinterest to convey some unknown meaning...
SEP.2023 I made this collage on my shitty Android phone using Cut+Mix Studio. It plays on the "your best friend's skeezy older brother" bit. I always admired the older brothers like this growing up, mostly because I wanted to dress and act like them so I could pick up chicks. 😁 Most of the images were ripped from early-mid 2000s gaming magazines.
Jul.2023 One of the last collages I got to make using the now-defunct app, Landing. It's an ode to my wife, to ABBA, and to weed. I don't remember putting the Nike chancla in there, but it feels out of place now that I look at it.
Jul.2023 This is one of my Photoshop masterpieces for sure. This collage is composed of wildly different images in terms of lighting, coloring, and style. I was able to make it pretty cohesive and am very proud of it. It also serves as a cover for one of my Spotify playlists, "AirDnB." It's a lot of jungle, drum'n'bass, and breakcore if you're into that sort of thing.
MAR.2023 I made this animated collage using the now-defunct app, Landing. I initially created it to accompany one of my Spotify playlists titled, "A Horror." The theme of the playlist is, "religious induced grunge, 'gaze, & stoner rock." ⚠️ Please note the full-size image is ~9MB. ⚠️
Apr.2023 I made this animated collage using the now-defunct app, Landing. It's an ode to one of my favorite bands, Alice in Chains. I sourced most of the assets myself using the Wayback Machine and crawling through tons of AiC fansites and forums. ⚠️ Please note the full-size image is ~6.5MB. ⚠️
Mar.2023 I made this animated collage on the now-defunct app, Landing. My initial idea was a subversion of the "hot but skeezy older brother in the 2000s" meme where I imagined myself as an elder teenager at that time. I was way younger than that in 2007, but I think I nailed what would have been my vibe. ⚠️ Please note the full-size image is ~9MB. ⚠️
Mar.2023 See the next entry's description below for more info! It's a two-parter.
Mar.2023 I made this collage on my shitty Android phone on a short flight to Chicago. I didn't have Internet, so I just took pictures of random shit on the airplane, including my wife playing with one of those silly Teenie Needoh squeeze toys. Big shoutout to Cut+Mix Studio; I've literally used that app on every Android phone I've ever owned.
Feb.2023 I made this animated collage in the now-defunct Landing app. I wanted to make a "sludged out" computer desktop using only slime green assets; I think it turned out pretty cool. I have no idea why the .gif speed is so fast in the preview thumbnail.. haha. ⚠️ Please note the full-size image is ~10MB. ⚠️
Jan.2023 This is the first animated collage I made in an online web application called Landing, which allowed you to upload .gifs/images to their database and make collages out of them. Unfortunately, Landing is now defunct and unable to be accessed. It was a really cool tool that I'm very sad is gone. ⚠️ Please note the full-size image is ~10MB. ⚠️
Jan.2023 A quick collage that my wife and I created in under an hour. We came up with an exercise of passing the iPad back and forth every 10 minutes to keep the ideas flowing on what image to piece in next. We harvested the imagery from the public domain and traced over it in Procreate.
Jan.2023 This is a collage that I made by scanning a bunch of ~1960s ephemera lying around my house onto my computer, stitching it together using Photoshop, then slapping an old picture of me on top of it all.
Aug.2021 This is a digital collage I made to accompany a deep house song I made a couple years ago. I mainly used assets sourced from my favorite online archive, OneLetterWords. Craig uploads the most interesting materials and categorizes them in such a pleasing way!
