Hello again, it's weeks since I last posted something, isn't it? Now we're working with "GIMP", an image editor, at computing. We've already learnt how to cut part of a photo and put it on a background. We've used an image of ourselves to place it where we'd like to be. Here's its explanation and the final result:
1. START
Open both the background image you want to use and the image of you clicking Archive and Open for each one, and start working with the image of you.
2. SELECT THE FIGURE YOU WANT TO PLACE SOMEWHERE
If you have a plain background, choose the Colour Selector (mayús+O), and click the right button, Select and Invert.
If you have well defined outlines choose the Wand (U), and Select the figure.
If you have a difficult image choose the Scissors (I), define the outline and when you close it, do double click inside it to Select the figure.
3. PASTE THE FIGURE ON THE BACKGROUND
Click the right button on the figure and then click Edit and Copy. After that, start the background image and click again the right button, Edit and Paste. Before you do anything else, you should start the Image's Layers Window (ctrl+L) and, on the right button, click New Layer, to avoid it to anchor to the background.
4. MODIFY THE IMAGE
Once you have your figure(s) on your background you can do with it (or them) whatever you want. At first you should adjust the sizes with the Scaling Option (mayús+T), and then you can change perspectives or improve the outlines and some more options with the Tool Box (ctrl+B). When you place your mouse on the icon of each option it shows you a small explanation of what it can do.
My edited image:
I hope it was useful and you liked, if you want to know I placed myself at the European Modern Art Museum (MEAM), in Barcelona, which I'd like to visit someday. See you ;)
