Let me start off this post by saying that I totally wish I was British.  If the accents weren’t enough some of the most adorable people ever are from there (think Sophia Grace and Rosie and One Direction).  So when I came across A Place I’ve Never Been I knew I had to do it. This assignment was worth two stars and the directions were “create a photo collage or illustration of a place you’ve never been to.”

To make my collage I used gimp.  To start off I used a picture of the British flag as my back ground.  I then opened this picture of the Tower Bridge on a new screen:

On this screen I cut the bridge out form the background by using the free select tool.  To be completely honest, this took quite some time.  At first I was trying to cut the whole background out at once.  I quickly realized that there was no way that was going to work without loosing my mind.  Instead I ended up taking chunks out little by little until my picture looked like this: 

I then copied and pasted this onto the flag background that I had previously created.  I had hopes that since I had just gotten rid of the background in a different screen that it would remain gone.  Sadly this did not happen.  I was going to go back and take the back ground out completely again but as I was going I realized that I liked it much better with a little bit of white around the edges.  After I finally got my picture cut out and on the background, I was trying to decide how to put London on there somewhere.  I originally was going to type it on there but I was anything but pleased with how it looked.  I decided to take an old London Olympic poster and crop the word London out of it so I had this (which looked way cooler than any font I had on my computer):

I then pasted the word London onto my project. I played around a little bit on exactly where I had wanted it.

Overall I am thrilled with how this turned out.  Who would of thought I’d like design week more than visual week? Not me!

Hope you find this lovely! Only ten more stars to go!