To continue on my Visual Assignment quest, I did a one star worthy assignment today from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  I randomly chose the assignment, Winterize It!, which requires the winterizing of a photo from the summer.

I wanted to make it very realistic, so I googled how to add snow to a photo.  A set of directions popped up to use GIMP, which I already had, so I decided to follow those.  Unfortunately, after about 30 minutes of creating layers and screening them over the original photo, the end result wasn’t what I wanted, so I scratched all that.

Instead, I  opened the photo in Picasa which then lead me to open it in Picnik.  Picnik allowed me to add Santa hats to each of the people in the photo.  Here’s the original photo:

And this is what it looked like after I added the Santa hats:

To find a much easier way of adding snow, I googled adding snow to a photo again, and looked down further.  I stumbled upon a website, Lunapic, that does it for you once you upload your photo.  After that, I saved it to my computer and uploaded it to Flickr.

Although it turned out much faker than I originally wanted, it gets the point across and after failing in GIMP, I just wanted it to be done!  As always, I shared my work with the rest of the ds106 community via Twitter.

#ds106 Another two visual assignments completed and my first tutorial! Check them out! ds106.larahampson.com/tis-not-the-se… & ds106.larahampson.com/colourize-it/

— Lara Hampson (@l_hampson23) February 13, 2013