Picking pictures that fit my theme was more hard than I thought it would be. I had to include pictures that included both my military and normal life, which is hard because I hate taking pictures. I decided to go with a mixture of my family life, school life, and military life. The top left is me in Georgia helping with hurricane relief after hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The top right is me during a chemical attack exercise. The bottom left picture is the night my sister got engaged. The bottom middle is me and a friend coming back from Kuwait last year, and the bottom right is me tabling for my fraternity. All of these pictures are of significant or fun moments in my life and I think the variety shows that being in the military doesn’t make you any different than anyone else. That is the main goal of my blog. You see these grand spectacles of the military on movies and television shows, but in reality, everyone I’ve ever met in my time in service has just been a normal everyday person. Its almost like being back in high school to be honest.
I have never used Photoshop or any editing software before, so I messed around for longer than I care to admit trying to piece together five simple photographs into a collage. I originally wanted to have a specific picture prominent but decided that since my blog was titles “Everyday lives of the military” that it would be better to have every picture be relatively the same size to help show that every aspect of my life is equal.  So, after playing with a few of the tools Photoshop offers and after figuring out how to resize the pictures and build frames into the canvas, I did some math and built five frames to perfectly fit the 580 x 400 pixel background. I then cropped and edited the photos to fit into their respective frames. I think this is a massive step up from my draft as it looks cleaner. Just like that, my final “masterpiece” was complete.