Manipulating images is fun!

Today's meeting was very fruitful for our MAGIC Comenius members. Everyone rolled up our sleeves to dive into image manipulation, editing posts, working on comics and getting ready to present our project to the rest of our school students. Once again we met at our school computer lab!

Image manipulation fascinated us so we dived into Gimp, the GNU image manipulation software we mainly use to create our manipulated photos. Some samples of our students work are really great fun to see! Take a look at how Despoina Tsakiri repositions herself in the ice skating arena in Tilburg! It's just great that Tom lifts Vasilis just in front of the StayOkay youth hostel! Or to see John ice skating in the... fields!

Well, you guessed it! They are manipulated photos!

Some other students will start looking up information about our next meeting in Koper, Slovenia and post it on their blogs.

 

So what our next plans? The online comic book team will have to get in touch with the rest of the students of our Comenius partners so that they will start using pixton.com to set up their ideas and create their comic book. The online magazine team should contact their Comenius classmates from other countries to start posting their diaries.

So , see you soon in our next week's meeting!

Manipulating images with Gimp

This is a sample of manipulating photos using Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program:

Original image: Bill Rodanidis is presenting Greece to his classmates

Original image: The teachers room in the Odolphuslyceum in Tilburg

Manipulated image: Bill Rodanidis is standing in the teachers room!

Gimp is a very powerful image processing software that is free to download and use in your computer. It runs in many platforms. You may use the Scissors Select Tool to extract portions of an image and then copy paste the selected portion to another image to have your manipulated photo.

Photoshop is a powerful, yet commercial, image processing tool you may wish to use. Photoshop Express Editor allows you to do some powerful image editing of your snapshots. I suppose you know many other image processing tools, many of them running online, so please feel free to suggest some of them by commenting to this post.