The collage prompts for May, in “Makers of Mixed Media Art/Artists,” are
Branches A label
An arrow Scribbles
Food
Now, I have an idea in mind, but last night I was playing with an app called, “Pages.”
I set it to graphics and searched for each of the prompts. I chose the first result that appealed to me.
The optional theme is, “still life,” so I chose a table to put things on. Then I chose a background.
The app layers things in the order you choose them. Moving things is easy. You click on the object and dots appear in the corners. You can use them to move objects and change their sizes.
To change layers you click the object, choose the paintbrush icon at the top, and a slider appears. I needed to move the background to the very back, of course, so I slid the slider all the way to the “back.” I “layered” all my objects using the slider.
This is what I arranged:
I saved to photos and used photo editing to crop and add my tiny signature:
This may be the app I need to replace Microsoft Picture It.
