Thursday, September 10, 2015

Palm Tree, Color Me, Your Choice

This week the class will venture into the world of "GIMP".

GIMP an acronym for (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

To introduce the software you will be doing a few projects.

 Palm Tree

 In this first project you will be given a photo a palm tree and modify the image with several different effects.
  •  Colors - Hue Saturation 
  • Tool Box - smudge tool Effects- Light and Shadow - 
  • Gradient and or Super Nova Efects - Atrtistic - Van Gogh 

When ready to save the modified image select "Export". Make sure your image is saved as a JPG or PNG.

 Color Me

In this project you will take a photo of yourself using "photo booth" Import the photo into Gimp.
  • Colors - Threshold - adjust image using the black triangle in the dialogue box. Select done to save changes.
  • Tool Box - using the "pencil" with the size of 'one'. Make lines where needed.
  • Tool Box - Select the "Paint Bucket"  A dialogue box will appear. Select color and pour the paint. 


Your Choice

Using an image of your choice - Imput into GIMP and be creative using some either some of the tools from the past two days or explore with something new.

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