Gimp

This week we have been learning the basics in using Gimp. In these photos I practiced using the crop, move and selection tools as well as playing around with using different layers.

In the first photo I combined two pictures, one of the dock and one of the sunset. I cropped the picture of the sunset and selected the portion I wanted in the final picture and deleted everything else. Then, I moved the sunset layer until it was showing above the dock. Lastly, I adjusted the color balance in both layers to help them blend more.

I decided to create this photo based on the funny personalities in my family. The original photo is of the person on the right. I then selected the other two people out of other photos and deleted the area around them. I put them on top of the main layer and set there to be an alpha channel so the background I deleted was transparent. Then I rotated them so they are all facing the same way and moved them. I also changed the layer size of the person on the left since it was much to large. 

The last picture is my favorite. It is one photograph that I created a duplicate layer, selected my grandpa and inverted the selection to delete the background. In the second layer I used desaturate to make it black and white. What is left is my in color grandpa layer on top of the black and white layer of the kids running. 

I have had a lot of fun with this and will continue to practice and maybe update this post as the week finishes out.