raccoon

feather duster

mtndewspray

Is that a green raccoon tail hanging on the wall? Nope, that is just a plain ol’ feather duster. If you stare at it long enough, you can easily mistake it for a raccoon tail or even Mountain Dew spilling out the can. It’s possible that you could mistake for something else, but with my knowledge of GIMP and the Flickr album above, I can  help understand what I see when this feather duster comes into my view.

To create this three and a half star assignment, I found an image of a raccoon and a can of Mountain Dew online and opened them up as layers in GIMP along with my image of the feather duster in my room.

I then went under the Tools section and used the Selection Tools to select everything around the feather duster in order to make its background transparent. I used the Fuzzy select tool since it is best at selecting a large chunk.

In order to make the actual background transparent, I had to go under Layers and hover over Transparency and select Add Alpha Channel. I then pressed the delete key and everything, but the feather duster itself was deleted.  

I then re-sized the image of the feather duster for each image respectively in order to simulate the look of a raccoon tail or Mountain Dew spewing out of a can. Once again, you can see these images in the Flickr album above.