<p>GIMP: clone and distort… fun with pixels!</p><p>There is some really cool (but not too useful) things you can do with GIMP. Remember: just because you see it, doesn’t make it REAL!!</p><p>Cloning: 1. Open “Cabin.jpg” from your GIMP picture folder</p><p>You should have a picture of a new cabin on a weedy, gravelly lot with a trailer in front.</p><p>2. Use the zoom tool to enlarge the front yard.</p><p>3. Switch to the clone tool, and select a large, round brush.</p><p>4. Hold down the Ctrl button and click somewhere on the grass in the front yard. Release the ctrl button.</p><p>5. Color the edges and bare spots in the yard with the grass. You will have to keep ctrl-clicking the grassy areas to work all around. Try working up to the driveway, and removing the big green power transformer in the front yard. Patience, Patience!</p><p> a. Use the clone tool to remove the yellow date stamp from the picture</p><p> b. For a challenge, try cloning the little pine tree, or removing the neighboring house.</p><p> c. For a devious challenge, try changing the yellow date stamp to some other date…</p><p>6. Now switch to the Healing Tool (band-aid tool). It works just like the Clone Tool, but makes a fuzzy blend of the old layer with the new layer. Go around the edges of the lawn with the healing tool, trying to make them look realistic.</p><p>7. Use the clone tool to remove the lettering on the side of the trailer.</p><p>8. Touch up the picture anywhere you think it looks fake. </p><p>9. Find a picture of a group of people, and try to use the clone and healing tools to remove someone from the picture…</p><p>10. Remember: Use your powers for good!</p><p>Distorting: 1. Open the picture “Cowboy.jpg” from your GIMP picture folder. You are going to change his facial expression to a happy one. 2. Zoom in on his face. Draw a big square selection around his face.</p><p>3. On the Filters menu, choose Distorts, then choose IWarp </p><p>4. There is a popup box where you can make changes to your selection. Choose the “Move” option, and set the “deform radius” to 20.</p><p>5. Gently, with small strokes of the mouse, lift his cheeks and the corners of his mouth. Cool huh?</p><p>6. Use the Grow setting to give him big pop-eyes, and or the Shrink setting to give him beady-eyes.</p><p> a. The Remove setting allows you to undo distorted areas of the picture</p><p>7. Select OK</p><p>8. Use Ctrl+z and ctrl+y to swap back and forth between the original picture and your distortion. </p><p>9. Now screw up a picture of your own…</p><p>10. Remember: Use your powers for good!</p>