For this weeks assignment I decided to use GIMP to manipulate my photos. In my first photo, I started with the background (a photo that I took at Lake George, NY.) About a week ago I took a photo of a rabbit laying down in a funny position. I decided that if I were to select the rabbit in this position, add a cape, and super impose him into the air, it would look as if he was flying, thus we have "Super Rabbit".
The next shot that I took was of a single firework exploding (the one on the right), and I added another firework exploding to the left side of the shot to try and balance the photo and add to the composition. I did this by using the "free select tool" or "lasso". Once I selected the image, I added the photo to my clipboard and pasted it in the original photo. I than had to move the image to the final destination using the "move tool". I took these photos at Stratton Mountain's Firework display on July 3rd. I took about 300 photos of the fireworks, but only liked about 40 shots. It was way harder than I could ever imagine. It would have probably worked better if I had my tripod.
The third manipulation (My favorite) is a picture of my dogs head on my nephew's body. I started with a picture of my dog getting her nails cut (shes not happy). I selected her head by quick masking the photo and painting the area of selection. After I got the area that I wanted, I sent the image to my clipboard, and pasted in over the shot of my nephew eating an Italian ice. Once I had the photo in a good position I used the smudge tool to tie the photo together.
My final shot took me the longest to manipulate. The background shot was taken in Stratton, VT, of a pond with a beaver dam in the background. In the foreground I have a shot of a couple sitting on a bench. Before I manipulated the shot the couple were looking at Lake George from a park bench, relaxing under the trees. The whole foreground of the final shot was layered over the shot of the beaver dam. I used the software's "Quick Mask" tool to select the images in the foreground (the couple, the bench, and so on...) Once I had the selected area, I cut it into my clipboard, and pasted it into the scene with the beaver dam.
This next shot was really challenging. I wasn't sure what I thought about it, but I was trying to go extreme. I picked a photo of my bathroom sink and layer that with a shot of Lake George. After I was done laying Lake George over the sink, I made another layer with the water coming out of the faucet.
I forgot to mention after I was done manipulating all mt shots, I scaled the pictures down so that they would fit onto the computer screen, at 100%.
