Week 2 More Gimp

This week in Electronic Content I had to make a logo using Gimp. This proved problematic for me, I'm not sure if this is because I was too tired but I found the tutorial very difficult to follow and had to improvise and restart my work far too often.

So after a whole afternoons work, here is my effort.

This image was created in 4 layers, a background layer, text layer, colour layer and a shadow layer.
The image does have a transparent background, however when it is lifted onto the blog the background appears white. I am not sure why this has happened


The next task was to create a snowman. Well the weather is not that bad yet so here's a couple we created earlier;

I decided that a beach scene would be more appropriate for the snowman at this time of year; he is obviously taking an autumn break.

Using Gimp I used the lasso function to select the snowman, I enlarged the picture to make my selection as accurate as possible. I was unable to use the magic wand for this because there was not enough differential between the foreground and background colours.

I added him to the beach scene using a separate layer. Again using Gimp, I added him to the beach scene photo, obtained from the internet, by opening the scene on as a separate layer. I then copied and pasted the lassoed snowman over.