C O M P U T E R C L A S S

GIMP

SELECT THE PHOTO

• File

• Open

• Backdrop picture (background picture)

• Click Open

• File

• Open as layers (the first photo)

• Open

• Select Scale Tool

• Scale Layer (make the picture small):

• Width/Height/Reset/scale down/Press

Enter and Confirm

Move

• Select Move Tool

• Select Scale Tool and make it smaller if you need it.

• Move it with Scale Tool. Press the magnifier to Zoom it.

• Now make Rendering/Select Tool (rope).

• At the bottom of the Toolbox Check mark:

Antiliasing/Feather edge GO RENDERING!

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• View/ Zoom/ 25%

• Select/ Invert

• Edit/Cut

• Select/None

• move use:

• To convert small the

picture use SCALE

Press SCALE

SHADOWS

• Brush/Black

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Press paintbrush

Brush

Black fuzzy brush (17)

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Add:

1. Layer

2. Mask

3. Add Layer Mask

4. White

5. As rendering you

are going to fuzz

6. Apply Layer Mask

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• Select the Layer Photo

• Alpha to selection

• Bucket fill tool

• Fill Whole Selection: black

• Click in the first layer photo

• Select None

• Click on Perspective Tool

• Grab to the photo

• Move the Upper Corner

• Click Transform

• Shadow

• Filter/Blur

• Gaussian Blur

• In Blur Radius

• Horizontal 15.0

• Vertical 15.0 ok Opacity=12.8

WORK WITH COLORS

• Colors

• Curves

• Channel the red curve

• Value

• YOU ARE GOING TO SELECT ANOTHER LAYER AND

REPEAT THE STEPS.

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THE PHOTO AS SKETCH

• Open as layer

• Scale to enlarge/to

enlarge the picture

• Move to the right

position

• Perspective Tool

• Transform

A PHOTO AS SKETCH

• Colors

• Desaturate (remove colors)

• Lightness/OK

• Filters/artistic/photocopy/

• mask radius (+- 13.52)

• Sharpness (1.000)

• Percent black (1.000)

• Percent white (.493)

• OK

• Colors/ colors to Alpha/

• Select White Color Alpha/ok

• Filters/artistic/cartoon

• Filters/Distorts/Shift/Shift Amount 14/OK

PUT THE PENCIL INTO HIS HAND

• The pencil:

• File/open as layer/ render it

• Then Select Rotate Tool

• When you rotate the pencil

the rotate window show

you the angle …so click on

Rotate buttom

Rotate

MOVING THE PENCIL

• Move the pencil into the hands, rotate it as

necessary…

• In LAYERS click Opacity

• Click Zoom in

• Select the Eraser Tool/Fuzzy Brush

• Then erase the part hand is cover with the pencil.

• Then go to Colors/Curves

• Move the curve to make the pencil with lighter

color.

BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST

• Click on COLORS/ BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST