GIMP:

clone and distort… fun with pixels!

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!!

Cloning:
1. Open “Cabin.jpg” from your GIMP picture folder
You should have a picture of a new cabin on a weedy, gravelly lot with a trailer in front.
2. Use the zoom tool to enlarge the front yard.
3. Switch to the clone tool, and select a large, round brush.
4. Hold down the Ctrl button and click somewhere on the grass in the front yard. Release the ctrl
button.
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!
a. Use the clone tool to remove the yellow date stamp from the picture
b. For a challenge, try cloning the little pine tree, or removing the neighboring house.
c. For a devious challenge, try changing the yellow date stamp to some other date…
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.
7. Use the clone tool to remove the lettering on the side of the trailer.
8. Touch up the picture anywhere you think it looks fake.
9. Find a picture of a group of people, and try to use the clone and healing tools to remove
someone from the picture…
10. Remember: Use your powers for good!

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.
3. On the Filters menu, choose Distorts, then choose IWarp
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.
5. Gently, with small strokes of the mouse, lift his cheeks and the corners of his mouth. Cool huh?
6. Use the Grow setting to give him big pop-eyes, and or the Shrink setting to give him beady-eyes.
a. The Remove setting allows you to undo distorted areas of the picture
7. Select OK
8. Use Ctrl+z and ctrl+y to swap back and forth between the original picture and your distortion.
9. Now screw up a picture of your own…
10. Remember: Use your powers for good!