Betsy+Transformed

After I took the pictures of my car Betsy, I went into GIMP to see what I could do with some of the pictures. As I said with taking the pictures, I had a blast "playing" with them to change the pictures a bit. Although it was slightly frustrating trying to figure out what everything was and how to make the changes that I wanted, after the initial frustrations, the rest was smooth sailing. I think I was able to do some pretty interesting things to my original pictures.

I started out simply enough, simply trying to crop a picture. After cropping the front view of my car, I found the canvas tool that put my picture on a canvas:

After I changed my first picture, I was feeling a little more confident about my abilities, so I tried working with the picture of my car in the background and the grass in the foreground. I made two seperate changes to this picture. In the first picture I did the value invert, which basically gave me the negative of my picture. In the second picture I choose the cartoon function, which gave my picture sharper lines, therefor making it look like it came out of a cartoon:

The changes that I made to the above pictures were mostly simple mouse clicks on certain tools. I wanted to take my experimenting beyond that, so in the next picture I traced the outline of my car with the lasso tool, inverted what I had traced, and added a Guassian blur to everything but my car. Then I added text to the bottom of the picture just for fun:

In the last picture I altered, I stretched myself to learn more about GIMP and altering pictures. In the picture with my flower, I wanted to make the flower really stand out. So I traced the outline of the flower with the lasso tool, inverted what I had traced, and changed my saturation to 100. This resulted in the flower being left it's original pink, but everything else in the picture was changed to black and white: