Edited+Vivia

These pictures were taken with an Olympus D-370 digital camera. I used GIMP to modify them. I was conservative in the modifications because the assigment said to include the purpose of the modifications. I did play with airbrushing and painting but these distorted the image rather than enhanced it--airbrushing and smudging essentially erased the image, and painting was more like scrawling graffiti across it, so I didn't include those versions here. I think those might be fun and more appropriate used with another type of picture...

Here is the original picture.

Since the original was very dark, I adjusted the brightness and contrast which resulted in version 2:

I then opened another copy of the original picture, and changed it to a black and white version. I like this feature; much less confusing than having to decide between using black and white film or color in 35 mm cameras.

Again working from a fresh copy, I changed it so it appeared "indexed", which uses less colors than RGB. (info from [|GIMP help document)]



Finally, I flipped the document, resulting in a mirror image.