The Word Crafter: Gimp!!

Who Am I?

I am merely a teenage girl, trying to find her way in life. But if you look closer, you will see my fingers are stained with ink from the aimless doodles that cover every blank page and margin, and from the furious scribbling that fill the pages of my numerous notebooks. You will notice that I burst out singing at random times, am extremely absent-minded, and laugh way too easily. I read avidly, write fiercely, love passionately, and hate bitterly. The Bible is the source of my peace--and I am a sinner saved by the mercy of God's grace. I feel naked without my camera, and everywhere I look, I see possible snapshots that could have been taken. My pen is my weapon, my camera is my companion--and beauty is my inspiration. I am, as L. M. Montgomery put it, "an eternal slave to beauty". I spend most of my time gazing at the curtain that separates the natural from the supernatural—but at times, at times, the curtain is lifted. These moments I live for.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Gimp!!

Aw, so cool!! I love Gimp!! It's so much better than paint.net (in my opinion).

It's so complicated...I've been reading some tutorials, but just generally fiddling around with it, and these are two basics images I produced of Arwen...

This one has a background of Arwen in a veil, then an overlay layer of her veiled by Aragorn's tomb. I perhaps should have made the overlay layer a bit more darker, but I found it pretty good.

And this one I just LOVE! I adjusted the colors, sharpened it, and then did this photo affect that made the face way whiter and everything just clearer.

This is how it was originally:

6 replies:

Cylleruion Gwaithovorn said...: WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the club of gimp users!!!!!!; June 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Horsey at Heart said...: Wow, cool! How exactly do you get Gimp? Do you download it?; June 18, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Anonymous said...: AWESOME!!!!!
How did you get teh swirly veil thing?; June 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM
Hannah Nicole said...: Cool!

BEKAH YOU HAVE TO CALL ME IMMEDIATELY!; June 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Bekah said...: Thanks, Cylleruion! :D
I went on gimp.org, Horsey At Heart, and clicked Download. It's COMPLETELY free. However, if you haven't used any photoediting programs before, I recommend using paint.net as a starter, and then eventually using gimp.
Earwen-the swirly veil thing? In the first picture, I just used two images of Arwen (both from arwen-undomiel.com)...
Hannah-WHOO-HOO!!!!! Thank you SO much for deciding to come!!!!! I'm so happy now!!!! :) :)

Bekah; June 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Hannah Nicole said...: Yep! I had to come, I was just like, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!??!?!" lol...:D

BTW, I made this (in my opinion) really cool pic of Arwen and Aragorn, I'll have to send it to you. I used gimp AND paint.net. :D Or I could just upload it, but if I send it to you, then I can show it to you tonight.

Hannah; June 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM