Clocks & Bolts!

We're back on the game viewers! This time with the ultimate test. For today, I've decided to test my limits by using everything I have previously taught you on this blog. A mosaic of portraits, using photos, photo editing, special effects....everything! So, buckle up because the show is about to start. To begin with, I have decided to use an image of an art gallery in order to make this mosaic feel like like a real museum. With this background, I have used photographs of my collegues (with their permission) to make this mosaic.  I firstly cropped the image to the size I wanted it to be, and after that, since I felt like there weren't enough paintings I decided to edit more picture frames in. After that came all of my colleagues photos. One by one I edited each one in their respective frames, and I cropped them to the right size. For the ''filters'' I turned every picture to black and white, later I removed the white part (and left only the black), so that wa

 Welcome back, to another one of those silly little guides you guys adore. I decided that I wanted to make a photomontage of a place that I hold very dear to me. For this project, I have used a picture of that place and some magic to make it look different. As you can see, a very good angle of a very memorable place to me.  Firstly, I have filled the left wall with art pieces from one of my favourite artists called Ni Zan (you can fin his works here ) and if you want, you can click here if you wanna know more about him. I also added some of his works on the other side of the glass panels behind the bench. And lastly, I have added three graffitis, one with my name next to the bench, one with my online name on the roof's wall, and one all around the pilar on the right.  I lowered the opacity to make it seem more believable, added some shadows and lightning. And there you have it!

 We're back on the game fellas! And guess what, it's yet another day using GIMP. As you all know we previously did a photomontage where I showed all of you how to crop images together and make it look realistic. Today's exercise is quite the change, because I'm going to teach you how to do those cool grayscale photos where a single, vibrant colour is visible. Take as an example the picture below. As you can see, a very beautiful picture indeed. And if you haven't guessed by now, red's the most vibrant color there is. So, we will be creating a a grayscale of the whole image, in a copy of the image. That way, we will still have the picture below with the photo's original colors. Now, the next step ca be done by hand, or we can use the magic wand to select everything that's red, in my case I did by hand. We have to erase those parts from the grayscale image, so it will reveal the red color underneath. Add an inspiring frase, and just like that, voila! I be

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another silly post of this silly blog. As a lot of you remember, last time I showed you how to use some aspects of GIMP.  In one of the examples, we did sort of a photomontage where I showed you how to edit images on top of another image and making it look realistic. And this post is just to show another example of that!  However, this image is a bit different because I have also added a different sky by removing the previous one with the magic wand and eraser.  That's all there is to it fellas!  Stay tuned. 

 Sometimes we look at a picture and wonder, how would it look like with this? How would it look like that? Well, in this post you will learn how to make it look exactly like that! So, let's start! Firstly, we will grab a photograph we may have in our gallery, in my case I have chosen a landscape of a lake in Canada (the rights to the picture aren't mine) When looking at it for the first time I though, how would it look like with a bird on top of that log? Or how would it look like with some ducks swimming? Or how would a slightly cloudy sky look in this picture? To do this we will be using transparent images, which you can easily find in google. In my case I will be using pictures of a heron, a duck, and some clouds.  To use them, you can copy them onto the picture, and add them to a new layer. Once you have done that, place them where you see fit and use the eraser tools to erase any little imperfections. After doing that with each picture, use the pencil with a dark color in

 Hello there you daredevils! And Merry Christmas, although I suppose it is a bit late for that. As promised, I'm bringing you some new stuff about the program GIMP which I talked about not so long ago, so without further ado, let's get into it.  This time in questions, we are going to work with the layer system GIMP and the history system the program has. Which allows us to access any changes we may have done, at any given time. To see this, we will be using some basic shapes, so boot up the program and let's do it! Firstly, we will look in our tool box for the circle tool, and with that we will create a circle in any color we want. After that, we will right click the layer with the circle and a selection of options will appear, and we will click the option ''New layer'' or simply using the shortcut that appears next to it will do, too. We'll click the no background option to create the layer and, after it's created, we will double click it and chang