Model S Revisited!

My friend Model S came to town and we had a fun photo shoot. I haven't finished editing the pictures yet but I've worked on some. We wanted to go somewhere crazy to get cool backgrounds, but since we had only a little amount of time, we decided to just take pictures in front of a background we could wipe out. The backgrounds I ended up inserting were courtesy of Stock.XCHNG, a fabulous free stock photo site http://www.sxc.hu/.

I just erased the background (using in part the the intelligent scissors and in part various erasers) of my Model S picture and inserted the background pictures as a different layer. I also tried to give a more merged look by overlaying some black on a blank layer that I placed at the forefront of my GIMP file before saving as a jpg. They're not perfect sure, but I still thought the idea was kind of fun. :)

Happy Holidays!

I hope whatever holidays you're celebrating this season are fantastic!

Glitterfy.com - Glitter Graphics

Malgalin From Youtube

This guy's a genius! Okay, it shouldn't have been that hard for me to learn how to use the intelligent scissors tool in GIMP. And I should have looked it up months ago. But I'm lazy and forgetful. :) I randomly came across this video and discovered the missing key: after isolating the area you want, you have to click within the selection in order to actually select the area. I've spent hours trying to use that tool, but I never thought to click inside the area afterwards. (Go figure!) It's basic, but it was news to me. Thanks Malgalin!

Old Pics + GIMP = Fun :)

It's hard to think back to the time before I had GIMP in my life. Ha ha. But I found some old photographs on my computer the other day and realized I had never played with them using GIMP. It's amazing to me how bad photographs can become, ergh, not so bad with editing. :)


Details: Edited in our favorite program, GIMP! I repeatedly inverted the color and color values to get a fuzzy look and random coloring. Fun, fun. :)

"Photo Fun" Got an Upgrade!

I previously have discussed the joys of Photo Fun, the fun and classic way to upload photos and insert them into pre-made classics such as billboards, books, museums, and more. Photo Fun has some new and great pre-made images to choose from so I'd definitely recommend returning to the site. And my previous warning still applies: some of the pictures are offensive so avert your eyes. Without further ado: http://photofunia.com/. :)

(And you can check out my first Photo Fun post here.)


Details: I edited the original photograph in GIMP. I relied heavily on the Iwarp tool--one of the best inventions of our day! And I've also become obsessed with airbrushing, but you probably already know that. :)