Our Re-Make Project 2013

By: Grace Anne and Larissa

Our Topic

Our topic of this project is to learn how to use GIMP

We chose this project because we did not know how to use a photoshopping program, and we both would like to learn how to take a photo (from a camera) and be able to start from scratch and remake it.

We hope to discover how to copy and totally remake a picture that was downloaded from the Internet, from scratch. To do this, our software of choice was GIMP.

Outline of the Presentation

The Beginning

In-Between

Pictures we chose to copy from scratch or combine to make our own pictures

Final Products

Overview of Documentation

Examples of Documentation on our calendar

Rating of Team members effort

Changes or Bumps in the Road

How we overcame those changes

Conclusion

The Beginning

We had no clue whatsoever what to do

We searched “Gimp 2.8 Tutorials” on YouTube

We found this guy: http://www.youtube.com/user/malgalin

His name is Jackson Bates, and his whole channel is Pre-Gimp 2.8 and Gimp 2.8 Tutorials

We watched the videos, and suddenly, we started to get an idea of how to use Gimp

The In-BetweenThe Majority of Our Project

The First Pictures

This is the very first picture that we photoshopped:

Idea and tutorial from Jackson Bates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYrYYWMYvrY

1. Look up close and you see dots.

2. Step back and see the whole picture.

The First Pictures

Here are the second and third pictures, using the same idea:

Dots here are closer together, edges are normal

Dots here are spaced farther apart, and edges are alternating

between longer and shorter.

PoniesThe story behind our picture-perfect ponies

About the Picture

We used two pictures: one of each pony

We used the Intelligent Scissors tool to select the pony from one picture so that we could paste him into another.

Link to tutorial for the Intelligent Scissors tool is below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpOM2f7pYGk

The Finished PictureCan you tell which pony came with the picture and which didn’t? We couldn’t figure out how to blend the other one in a bit more. Suggestions are welcome.

Harry PotterThe story behind our Harry Potter picture

Harry Potter

The next few slides will show you the development of the reproduction of the Harry Potter picture. Then we will show a comparison of our version versus the proffessionals!

Original picture that we are trying to re-create from scratch

using Gimp

HermioneWe cut Hermione out from this picture. We cut Luna and Cho out of the original photograph.

Brick wall background

Hermione pasted into the

brick wall background

The Foreground Select Tool

We cut Hermione out of the original picture by using the Foreground Select Tool. This tool lets you draw a rough outline around the foreground (or the object that you want to select), and once you connect back to where you started, it fills that area with a transparent blue. You mouse over (while holding the left click button) the colors that you want it to select. It selects the area that it thinks matches those colors, and once you are satisfied with the selection, you hit ‘enter’ and it turns that area into a selection that you can cut and paste into another background. In the next slide, we will show you a tutorial of this (without using Hermione).

The Foreground Select Tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgr3n4z1yRk

(We were not able to get the video on the PowerPoint, so we put the link to it above)

We added Luna . . .

. . . and Cho

We tried to re-create the shadows by coloring parts of the image black. It didn’t really look that realistic, so instead we layered blue and black fog overtop of this.

The Final Product

Original Photo Our Photo

Comparison

All right, we know that the final product was WAY worse than the professional original. We did try our best, though, which is what matters, right?

The fog wasn’t the same on ours compared to the original. Neither was the lighting.

The “Harry Potter” logo was in a slightly different position.

The dimensions of our picture were different from those of the original

How else does our picture differ from the original? How could it be better? Comments and questions are appreciated.

The Final Pictures

Overview of the Documentation

We are using Google Calendar; here is our calendar:

Documentation

We tried our best to follow the documentation checkbrick and the documentation rubric.

For the first few weeks, our documentation was OK. A week later, we got a surprise: We got 100% on our documentation for the week of Monday, 3/20, 2013

We learned that you can’t do documentation in 5 minutes. It takes time to do it right, just like anything else.

Other Pictures that we Photo Shopped

A Whale Tail

A Breaching Whale

1. Look up close and you see dots.

2. Step back and see the whole picture.

Feedback

Megan giving us feedback on our Harry Potter Project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JND5esAHRic

Team Members Effort Ratings

Larissa rating Grace Anne on effort and what she does well and can do better:

I think that Grace Anne is a good partner, because she understands what it takes to make her partner happy most of the time. I think that the only thing she could do better is to use her time a bit more wisely, because once in a long while she would get a little bit off task.

Grace Anne rating Larissa on effort and what she does well and can do better:

I think that Larissa is a very good partner because, she is a really good confidence booster when you are down. She always reminds people to keep working in a nice quiet way. She is almost always on task and is really nice at explaining things I don’t get when using Gimp. She let me use her computer for this project because my Mac would not download Gimp.

Bumps in the Road

Some of our bumps in the road during this project are:

Having trouble downloading GIMP at the start of our project

Fire Drills, Tornado Drills, and Lockdowns interrupting our Engage class

School Holidays

Field Trips

How We Overcame Difficulties

We overcame the difficulty of downloading GIMP by going to Jackson Bates’ YouTube channel, and watching his tutorial of how to download GIMP. It cleared up a lot of our questions and made downloading the program much easier.

We overcame the loss of time from fire drills, tornado drills, lockdowns, school holidays & field trips by working more efficiently than we normally would in class, and by putting in extra time during Academic Lab and at home.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we think that we learned a great deal about GIMP. We learned how to use different select tools, how to use filters, and how to adjust brush size & transparency. We learned how to make new layers, and how to edit and/or view those layers one at a time. We learned how to merge layers, how to generate images and effects (i.e. fog etc.), how to turn the grid on and off, how to adjust the size of the grid, how to lock the brush to the grid, and how to adjust the increments of the brush strokes. We learned all of this and more, and we had a lot of fun doing it. We think that the skills we have learned might be useful for our careers in the future, knowing that we are in the digital age.