I guess I’m on a Gimp kick. For this assignment I did the Complete Family assignment. My cousins and I have not been all together in YEARS so I decided to make us one big happy family again. I cut everyone out of their respective photos and merged them all together into one layer. This was one long, intensive process. I was happy I only have 7 cousins, otherwise this would have driven me nuts to have to do more! I was a little disapointed at the quality seeing as it took me so long to do. I guess I did not get close enough with the path tool to each person. I didn’t even realize it until they were on top of each other and the colored background. That’s something I will have to work on.

Common Everyday Object

Take a picture of a common ever day object and manipulate the colors.

This is a 2 star assignment.

Before:

After:

For this picture I included my desk lamp and planner as well at some mini drawers that I keep pens and highlighters and other things in.  I feel like having more than one object in this picture makes editing the after image more interesting. After taking a picture on my iPhone I then used this free app called Color Photo Edit (it’s a free app in the app store).  Afterwards I then scrolled through the different color schemes and ended up with one called Inverse.  I chose this color scheme out of all the different ones to choose from because to me it’s a light and dark kind of change.

When Unicorns Explode

Make a photo containing as MUCH color as HUMANLY possible. This should be a photo that in some way captures or embodies joy to you.

This is a 1 star assignment.

For this assignment I took a picture of my quilt on my bed.  I took this picture because I like the quilt on my bed because it has a lot of color and pattern in it.  For me I like when things are colorful.  I think life is boring with out color.  I really liked this assignment.  I think color helps to define the picture more.  I guess this embodies joy to me because I always enjoy going to bed at night.

An Album Cover.

So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty.

First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band.

Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page.

The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool.

This is a 2 star assignment.

The random Wikipedia page I got was Hunan Cuisine, so that’s what my band is called.  My album cover is called Alone in the World.  It is from a quote from Henry David Thoreau. The photo I got was called Angry Bunny in the Dark?!  This was posted by Thomas (music note next to name).

What I first did was download the photo.  It then opened in Windows Live Photo Gallery (my default place for pictures on my computer).  I then played with the coloring of the image. The next thing I did was open the drawing in paint to add text to it.  I like the few color thing in this because having few colors can represent loneliness.  Which seems to be the theme in this abum.  I really enjoyed this assignment because it I like how with these 2 random words and 1 random picture can create a story itself.

Splash the Color

I really enjoyed this assignment, I’m still getting accustomed to GIMP and how to bend it to my will but I didn’t curse too much in the process. This is a shot of me eating a pretzel which I’m sure was outrageously priced out at Disneyland when I went to visit my Aunt in San Diego with now fiancee. It was well worth the cost in memories and fun.

2/5 stars