Week #3 April 29- May 3 GIMP...Palm Tree and Other Assignments

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Palm Tree Gimp Assignment

Color Me, Palm Tree,  & Your Choice Photo

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.

 Palm Tree

 In this first project you will find photo a palm tree from Google. (large greater than 1000 x 1000 pixels) and modify the image with several different effects using Gimp  The following are the affects you will make to your photo.

• Colors - Hue Saturation (remember to click OK before next step)
• Tool Box - smudge tool 
• Effects- Light and Shadow - 
• Gradient and or Super Nova Effects - Artistic - Van Gogh 

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

Original

Modified

Ocean Scene

Next Project

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

 Color Me

In this project you will take a photo of yourself using "photo booth" Import the photo into Gimp.

Using the pull down menu from top, make the following selections.

• 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. 

Modified

original

Your Choice - Threshold Color Me 2

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