RAM DAM, THANK YOU, MA’AM SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHS, TYPEFACE, AND PRODUCTION NOTES COLLAGE CREDIT This is a custom photographic collage for theramdam.com, using the existing Ram Dam character and the project owner's requested Western treatment. The photographers and institutions below created the individual source photographs. Their credits are separate from the assembly, typography, retouching, and arrangement of this new collage. 1. HOOVER DAM BODY Photograph: Hoover Dam looking upstream on the Colorado River. Photographer: Alissa Coes / U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Source: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/hoover-dam-looking-upstream-colorado-river Rights: The USGS source page explicitly identifies this photograph as Public Domain. Use in this design: The existing Ram Dam's photographed dam cutout is reused as the body, with conventional scaling, layer placement, and contact-shadow treatment. 2. BIGHORN RAM HEAD AND CHEST Photograph: Ram portrait; Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Photographer: Ryan Hagerty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Source: https://www.fws.gov/media/ram-portrait-0 Rights: The FWS source page explicitly identifies the photograph as Public Domain. The source credit is "Hagerty, Ryan/USFWS." Use in this design: The existing head/chest cutout is reused, tilted into a slight bow, and layered with the hat, sunglasses, rose, and shadows. Original photographed horn portions establish both horn positions: the near horn overlaps the hat, and a small far-horn section appears through a curved hat/brim opening. A narrow foreground brim lip and contact shadow support that fit. A photographed lip portion seats the rose stem at the mouth. 3. BIGHORN RAM LEGS Photograph: Wildlife; bighorn sheep standing on a ledge. Photographer: Victoria Stauffenberg / National Park Service (NPS). Source: https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/245d4149-a082-4c9d-9a6b-371f6f7af7b4 Asset ID: 245d4149-a082-4c9d-9a6b-371f6f7af7b4. Rights: The NPS record states "Public domain:Full Granting Rights." Use in this design: Isolated photographic legs are repositioned beneath the dam. One foreleg is raised at its concealed upper connection so the hoof rests on the skateboard. Conventional layer shadows support contact. 4. BROWN COWBOY HAT Photograph: Cowboy Hat, Public Domain Pictures image 60890. Photographer: George Hodan. Source: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=60890&picture=cowboy-hat License evidence: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/free-download.php?id=60890&image=cowboy-hat Rights: CC0 1.0 / Public Domain, as identified by the source record. License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Downloaded photograph: 1920 x 1271 pixels. Use in this design: White-background masking, warm brown color grading, scaling, rotation with the bowed head, and contact shadows. The existing ram's near horn is layered over the hat/brim. A curved opening reveals a small section of the original far horn, with a narrow foreground brim lip and contact shadow to fit the hat around both horns. 5. SUNGLASSES Photograph: Black-frame sunglasses with green lenses, PxHere image 827195. Source credit: PxHere / CC0-Photographers. The record does not identify an individual photographer; its structured metadata uses the generic author name "CC0-Photographers." Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/827195 Rights: The source page states Creative Commons CC0 / Public Domain. License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Site license information: https://pxhere.com/en/faq Downloaded photograph: 1200 x 827 pixels. Use in this design: Manual masking isolates the photographed front frame and lenses. A small logo is conventionally cloned out using neighboring photographic pixels. Desaturation, darkening, perspective transformation, and rotation fit the glasses to the ram's face. 6. SKATEBOARD Photograph: Skateboard, Public Domain Pictures image 180792. Photographer: Charles Rondeau. Source: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=180792&picture=skateboard Rights: CC0 1.0 / Public Domain, as identified by the source record. License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Downloaded photograph: 1920 x 1280 pixels. Use in this design: The photographed skateboard is conventionally masked from its white background, given a small edge contraction and feather, and color-adjusted to fit the collage. It rests wheels-down beneath one hoof; the grip surface receives a separate contact shadow. 7. SINGLE RED ROSE Photograph: Red Rose on White Surface, Pexels image 11281418. Photographer: Amelia Cui. Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-rose-on-white-surface-11281418/ Rights: Pexels License; this photograph is not described here as CC0. License: https://www.pexels.com/license/ The Pexels license permits editing photographs and excludes selling unaltered copies on physical products. This rose is used as an isolated, transformed component of the modified photographic collage. Downloaded photograph: 2400 x 3600 pixels. The source page records a February 14, 2022 photograph taken with a Canon EOS 90D. Use in this design: Conventional color selection, a manually traced leaf correction, background-pocket cleanup, light edge feathering, and fringe cleanup produce the cutout. The rose is mirrored, rotated, scaled, and color-adjusted. A short stem tail is retained, and the ram's photographed lip occludes part of the stem at the mouth. 8. WESTERN LETTERING Typeface: Rye, Regular. Font software copyright: Copyright (c) 2011 by Sorkin Type Co. Reserved Font Name: Rye. License: SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Source: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/rye License source: https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/rye/OFL.txt The accompanying source font's OFL.txt was checked for the copyright holder and license. Preserve that license with any redistributed font file. Use in this design: Rendered lettering, conventional scaling, an arched upper line, and cream, faded-red, and muted-turquoise color treatments. The Photoshop lettering layers are raster artwork, not live text objects. SHIRT-PLACEMENT PREVIEW The neutral black shirt is a manually constructed placement illustration using a garment outline and ordinary shading. It is not a photograph of a purchased garment or a representation of a particular Printful model. Caption lettering in that preview uses Nimbus Sans. Those captions are outside the print artwork. PRODUCTION NOTES - The slight bow of the head was chosen as the project owner's expressly authorized fallback to an unconvincing photographic hoof-to-hat pose. - All image processing is conventional masking, transforms, color/tonal adjustment, local retouching, and layer compositing. No generative image model, generative fill, AI segmentation, or AI upscaling was used. - The original photographic component credits above do not imply that the photographers created the Ram Dam character or assembled this design. - Final transparent PNG: 4000 x 3650 pixels, sRGB, with 300-DPI metadata. This is an output-canvas specification. The photographic components have mixed source resolutions; ordinary resampling does not create additional captured detail or make every source photograph natively 300 PPI. - The original design pack includes review artwork and a placement preview. The shop uses the unchanged transparent PNG for printing, with separate Printful mockups for the selected shirt and sticker. The layered PSD and source cutouts remain in the original design archive.