This is a tutorial for the DS106 Bumper Stickers design assignment worth two stars. This assignment required you to create a bumper sticker which promotes the causes or effects of taking the DS106 class. I chose to create a dumper sticker that says “CAUTION DRIVER UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DS106″, I chose to base my bumper sticker off of this because DS106 requires a lot of long nights in order to finish the required assignments. Thus, we get little sleep and get up early to drive to our classes in the morning. Here’s my bumper sticker assignment.

In order to create a bumper sticker for this assignment you need photo editing software such as gimp which is what I used. I highly recommend using gimp because it’s easy to use, and can be downloaded for free off of the internet. Once you have downloaded gimp, the first step is to search google for a image that you would like to edit, if you don’t want to edit a image then simply skip this step. I searched google for caution signs, I chose the third caution sign on on the top because it was clean, simple, and I knew I could easily edit it.

The next step is to open up gimp. If your choosing to edit a image saved on the computer then you first have to import it into the gimp photo editing program. In order to do this, click file, open, choose the file containing the picture you would like to use, then click assign. By clicking assign gimp will import your picture into the window which will allow you to edit it. The canvas will automatically adjust to your image, if you would like to change the size of your image simply go to image, scale image.

Once you see your image in the canvas, the next step is to put text into your image. In order to do this click the text image (A)in your toolbox.

After clicking the text tool function simply drag and drop it in the position that you would like the text to appear in your image. Then type in your text that you would like to be shown in the gimp text box.

Now that you image has your text you can either stop here or add something extra. I decided to add police sirens on the bottom of the sticker to represent caution without actually saying caution. This was very easy to do, simply click the ellipse tool shown below. This will allow you to create circle and oval shapes perfectly.

Once again, simply just click and drag it to where you would like it to be shown. You can also alter the size of the circle. The next step is to fill in the circle with color, I chose red and blue to make it look like sirens. In order to do this just block the bucket in the tool box, select your color, and click inside the circle. Repeat these steps as many times as you like depending on how many lights you would like to be shown.

Your bumper sticker would now be complete. Next you have to save your image as a .jpg, and export it. Go to file, save as, type what your would like your bumper stick to be saved as, then click save.

Since you want you image to be a .jpg, you will have to export it. Gimp will automatically pop up a box asking you if you would like to export it. Click export.