gimp

= __**What is GIMP?**__ =

**GIMP** (**GNU Image Manipulation Program**) is an [|image retouching and editing tool] and is released under the [|GPLv3] license as [|free and open-source software]. There are versions of GIMP tailored for most operating systems including [|Microsoft Windows], [|Mac OS X] and [|Linux]. GIMP has tools used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, [|photo-montages], converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation plugin. The developers and maintainers of GIMP have a product vision for GIMP to strive to be a high end free software graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, photos, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements.

**__Evaluation__**
Any projects that we work on in GIMP will be evaluated using the document below.




 * __ 1. Introduction to GIMP __**

==**Please view the video below and follow the steps involved. Before viewing the video, you will need to save an image from the internet to your file server. You will need an image to work with and learn the basics of opening and saving working files and JPEG files in GIMP**==

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__**2. Using the Clone Tool**__
==**Please view the video below and follow the steps involved. You will need to use the picture of the North Battleford city skyline to go along with the steps in the video. The video will walk you through how to remove the water tower from this picture and make it look as if it never existed.**==

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=__**Cloning Exercises**__= Pick any two of the four photos below and try to remove the items listed above by using the clone and smudge tools. Once you are finished editing two of the photos, make sure that you save them as a JPEG and email them to me.

**PICTURE 1**
- Remove the cars from the street on the left side, remove the car advertisement billboard, remove the green street signs and the pole holding them up, remove the large sky scraper.

PICTURE 2
-Remove the flagpole from in front of our school as if it never existed.

**PICTURE 3**
- Remove all of the people from this picture.

**PICTURE 4**
- Change the red flowers in the picture to yellow

Everyone must complete the photo below. You are to restore this photo to look as if it was never damaged over time using the clone and smudge tools:
 * __Cloning Assignment__ **

**__Colour Splash__**
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__**Little Planet Method**__
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**Please view the video below and follow the steps involved. As you go through the steps involved in the video, you will need to get images of your own from the internet to use.**
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=__**Collage Assignment**__= = = Using the steps involved in the video, you will create self collage that represents you as a person. This collage will be something that you can put in your portfolio that you create in your English classes. Be sure to use a variety of images to show who you are through pictures. Think of things that represent you and that are important to you (ex: hobbies, interests, friends, family, job, etc). You will create this in an 8 1/12 by 11 work space so that it will fit in your portfolio binder.



**Please view the video below and follow the steps involved. You will need to save the image of the airplane and the North Battleford city skyline to follow the steps in the video.**
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__**Cutting, Pasting, Scaling and Layers Exercise**__
Using the steps that your learned in the video above, you will use the intelligent scissors to cut out the truck and paste it onto the dirt road picture below. Be sure that you pay attention to detail and work very carefully with the scissors. Scale the truck to fit into the dirt road picture. Once you have finished, save the file as a JPEG and email it to me.



**__Background Assignment__**
Using the skills that you obtained from the exercises above, you will:

1. Select a background image from Google images. 2. Find four images that you would like to paste into your background. These can be from google or from a facebook accound. Keep them appropriate please. :) 3. Once you have found your images, please open your background in GIMP. 4. Begin to cut and paste your other four images and place them appropriately into your background. 5. Be really precise with the intelligent scissors tool. Click the dots close together. 6. Scale, rotate, and move the pictures so they achieve the vision of what you are looking for. 6. Once you have the pictures within the background, use the text tool to place a title, quote, or any text that you would like to have on your picture. 7. Make sure you have achieved your desired creation and save as a JPEG. 8. Email your finished project to me.

Two examples of the background assignment are shown below.



__**5. Face Replace**__
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These two pictures will be put together to create a face morph. The face morph example is below these two pictures. Follow the video below and try this out yourself with the hulk and kid photos.

**__Face Replace Assignment__**
Using the steps that you learned in the video, you will take one persons body (your choice) and try to morph another persons face (your choice) onto it. Use the video as a guide to create your own version of a face replace. Once you have completed this assignment, save it as a JPEG and email it to me. Be creative!!

__**Here are the step by step instructions to perform a "Face Replace" for the images above:**__
1. Save the two images above into your student user folder. 2. Open the image of The Hulk in GIMP. 3. In GIMP, go to file, open as layers and select the photo of the child. 4. In your layers, click the picture of the child once. 5. Turn the transparency of the child picture down to 70% so you can see the picture of The Hulk behind it. (This is located in the layers menu up top...it is labelled "opacity". 6. Using the scale, rotate and move tool, fit and place the image of the childs face over top of The Hulks face so you have a nice match. 7.In the layers menu, place the photo of The Hulk above the picture of the child. You wil not see the childs face anymore. 8. Right click on the image of The Hulk in the layers menu and select ADD LAYER MASK. 9. Click on the image of the child in the layers menu and turn the opacity back to 100% 10. Select the paintbrush and do not change any of the settings. Just click the paintbrush tool. 11. Trace around the face to reveal the mouth, nose and eyes of the child behind. Do not remove all of The Hulks face but just enough to reveal the nose, mouth and eyes of the child. You want to keep the general shape of the hulks face. 12. Once you have revealed the childs face, selec the image of the child in layers menu. 13. Go to the top tab where it says colors, then click "Hue-Saturation". 14. Using the sliding meters, change the Hue, Lightness, and Saturation of the childs face so it matches The Hulks green skin. 15. Once you are satisfied with the color, click on the white layer mask option in layers. This is the white square right next to the image of the Hulk. 16. Go to the top where it says filters. Then select blur and then GAUSSIAN BLUR. 17. Once you are in this option, change the horizontal blur to an number higher than 5. 14 or 15 should work... This will blend the colours together and make it look more real. 18. Once you have done this, go to the smudge tool and use to further blend the pictures together. 19. Once your are happy with how it looks, go to your layers menu. Right click on the image of The Hulk and select "merge down". 20. Save as a JPEG.

__**Picture Letters Project**__
Using the Layer Mask technique that you learned in the face replace activity, you will fit pictures inside of letters to create a visual representation of who you are. Follow the steps in the tutorial below to and instead of writing "GIMP", I would like you to spell your first name. Instead of using photos of a celebrity, use photos that represent who you are to build word art that lets people know what you are all about.

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__**Shepard Fairey**__
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