VISUAL C R E A T E S
Here are some magnificent photos I worked on:
For the first image, I thought we had to make a cheesy picture with some cheesy line. I thought this fit the criteria pretty well, and I think the end product is both revolting and revolutionary. Middle school girls, step aside.
I honestly couldn't retrace my steps completely in making this picture. I started off by adding the lens flare-type stars to the corners, which came from some of the filter effects. You get to actually place them on the X and Y axes of the picture, which I thought was pretty cool for some reason. Adding text was a little difficult, mostly because it was challenging to place the text, resize it, and change the font – a lot of clicking was needed in order to select the right thing. For the color effect, I simply went under the "color" menu and played around with which colors were more apparent in the picture; cyan and yellow, magenta and green, etc.
This second picture was originally taken from my phone with the Catwang app (I recommend it, it's a lot of fun). I simply added the cartoon filter in order to get the effect – this is actually for the first design assignment.
After playing around a little bit, I have to say that I don't really like Gimp. I don't think the software is completely intuitive and easy to use, and the menu screens that pop up when adding an effect are never centered, and always behind other layers. Other than that I'm sure it has good qualities, but it ran a little slowly on my computer. Hopefully I'll learn to use it better!
