At Belden Falls, 2010

At Belden Falls, 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010



The photo on the left is my daughter Sarah. I am practicing working with layers.
Each layer I added alloed me to manipulate a color or saturation. First I added white to her skin,
was the wild eyes, then her red lips and blood drops, then I changed her glass from white to blue.
I also adjusted the tint of the project in Picasa after I was done in GIMP.

The next photo is from the 4th of July fireworks. I added a floating layer that came from a photo
of my son in Afghanistan. The next layer left me blur the rough edges around my son and then the
final layer is the text. I really had a hard time with the text and am not sure how I finally
figured it out.:) I then played with the photo a bit more in Picasa, adding a blurred look to outer photo
which brough the focus more to my son than the fireworks.

I am definately going to keep playing with GIMP and Picasa.
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3 comments:

  1. The picture of your daughter came out awesome. It looks like you're really having fun with this. Have you sent your son that picture? I think he would love it. Of course, you probably will get a ton of requests from all of his buddies.

    keep playing, I'd love to see some more.

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  2. Jackie,

    I like both pictures. The one of your daughter

    is really scary.... she looks like she could

    be in the next Twilight movie.

    Your son is a hero. The fireworks

    exemplifies his courage. I will say a prayer

    for him.

    Angela

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  3. I really enjoyed the edit of your daughter! The tone of her eyes is perfect and the change in the glasses almost makes it look like she's under a blacklight :)

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