Week #10-text in picture

I labeled this picture using GIMP.  I just like the straight forwardness of the writing.  Being able to write information on the picture itself helps me as a viewer understand quickly what I'm looking at.

Week #10=paint brush

 The top photo is the one that I painted on.  I played around with different colors, but decided to go with the more black and white look.  I based that decision on the fact that the floor in the background was already black and white.  First, I cloned the floor to cover up the background edges that showed in the original.  Then, I found the galaxy (ap) brush, and clicked it all around my dog.  Then, I colored in his eyes with a brown round paint brush that fit very well to his eyes.  I like the shadows that were created as I used the galaxy.  It made the outline of my dog stand out. 

These are all just the originals.  I had trouble with my computer when I was selecting the pictures to put in here, and they did show up, but it took a very long time, and I thought they didn't.  Sorry.

Week #10-clone

 This is the photo that I used the cloning feature on.  I picked a round paintbrush and made the size around 3.75.  Then. I clicked on the part of the photo that I wanted cloned, and clicked all around the pumpkin.  I chose the round shape because I thought it matched the pumpkin's shape.  I purposely took the picture with the pumpkin off center because I wanted to see how the cloning would look around something that wasn't centered.  I just clicked the cloned part around in a circular motion until all the background was covered.

This is my original photo that I chose to clone.

Week #9 filters

 This original was taken one beautiful sunny morning, just as the sun was coming up.  I was slightly disappointed because the photo did not show the beauty of the sunrise.  So...I thought, this will be a good one to run through filters. 

 After trying many different filters, I simply fell in love with hitting just the Decor-Old Photo tabs.  That's it.  I know it still doesn't show the sunrise colors, like I thought I wanted to do.  In the end, I did almost the complete opposite of what I set out to do.

 This is the original for these photos.  I couldn't believe that both of my horse's eyes lit up because of the flash from my camera.  Again, I was slightly disappointed at my attempt to get a good picture, and decided to put this through the filters too.  I played around a lot with this one.

This is the process I used.  First, I added the "lens flare" and adjusted it to where I liked it.  Then, I added "fuzzy border.,"  then "despeckle." After that,  I couldn't get rid of his bright eyes, so I tried "oilfy."  Doing that took out the brightness in his eyes and made the fence wire disappear.