Is not a popular novel, but To Kill A Mockingbird is, and that is the book I chose to recreate. The assignment was to create a computer book for kids. Some examples can be found here. I know To Kill A Mockingbird isn’t exactly a “kids” book, but it is a well-known and awarded novel. From there, I took a lesser known email software, Thunderbird, and combined them to create To Kill A Thunderbird. I went online and used the cover of the book and the Thunderbird logo and came up with this book cover:

I started by editing the original mockingbird off of the cover by selecting an area of blue and re-pasting it over the image. I then dropped in the Thunderbird logo and flipped it around so that it would look like it was flying away from the nest. The next task was changing the title. Sure, I could have went and found the text online for it, but instead I just used the existing letters in the title. The hardest letters were the ‘H’, ‘U’, and ‘E’. I had to steal the ‘H’ from Harper and then change the color. For the ‘U’ I took the ‘O’ and chopped off the top and tried to color in the bottom with the orange color. Lastly, for the ‘E’, I took the ‘I’, copied it 3 times and cut those mostly in half and rotated them 90 degrees. Surprisingly using GIMP to do this assignment went very smooth, phew!

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