Fun+with+Levi

For this part of the assignment, I edited a picture that I took for the Digital Photography portion. The original was cute, but had my ugly garage and propane tank in the background. First, I improved on the picture by using GIMP's "Clone" and "Smudge" features to remove distracting objects in the background. I am not the best at cloning, and it was easy to tell I had done it, so I blurred out the background. I selected my son's shape using the "Create and edit paths" feature, then "Create selection from path." I inverted the selection so that the background was selected and used "Filters/Blur/Gaussian blur" with a radius of about 35 pixels. Here are the results.


 * [[image:levi_tank.jpg align="center" caption="Before"]] || [[image:levi_notank.jpg align="center" caption="After"]] ||

I also used the "Create selection from path" feature to change other elements in the background. In the first picture, I adjusted the background to 0 saturation to make it black and white while he remained in color.



Lastly, for fun, I added a little image of Domo Kun (Japanese cuddly monster) to the picture. I selected Domo Kun's shape and pasted it into the image. Then, I copied another layer with an identical picture of Levi over top of it to make it look like Domo Kun was behind him. Don't their expressions look similar?



On to Teaching and Learning!