The+Three+Bears+(Bill+Anderson)

For this project, I chose to photograph three of my mother's Boyd's Bears. I am not a very talented photographer so you will have to bear with me. I also have shaky hands as well, so some of the photographs are blurry.

I decided to try using GIMP because I thought the technology looked relatively easy to learn. It was definitely a lot easier than trying all of the intracacies of Adobe Photoshop. At least I thought so until I tried to download it. It took me thirty minutes of browsing to try to figure out exactly which software to load. I was finally able to locate a GIMP for Windows page and I followed the directions there.

Once I downloaded the software, I was easily able to follow Dr. Lamb's instructions and navigate through it.

The first of the pictures I tried turned out something like this:



Here is the second picture:



Another picture from a different angle:



Here is a closeup of one of the faces:



And finally here is another angle looking up at the bears:



I think this one of the reasons I never became a photographer!

I honestly found myself more frustrated with this wiki than I did with the actually photography and GIMP. For some reason, some of the items on the toolbar would become inaccessable when I minimized or maximized the page. I wanted to add another photograph to this page and I could not get the image tool to work. I also had trouble aligning my materials correctly where I wanted them. I switched to Word Editor mode and the project came out the way I wished for it to. But once I learned how to do this correctly, things flowed a lot more smoothly.