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Description

Welcome to the Digital Graphics Lab, where you will create cool art-quality images from your own photographs - no prior experience required!

To get started, JOIN THIS GROUP. Then click on the Activities tab. Next complete each of the Activities. And finally compete in the Challenge Activity

Click the Details tab for more information. Once you are done with this learning path, you might like: Animation Exploration, Mix it, Mash it, Make Your Own Music, and Make Exceptional Videos.

Learning Path and Challenge Activity Provided By

Generous support for the "Digital Graphics Lab" learning path comes from our good friends at Giant Campus!

Additional Challenge Activity Provided By


A special thanks to our friends at Vertigo for helping us to create an additional graphics challenge activity!

Digital Graphics Lab: Drawing with GIMP

Digital Graphics Lab: Drawing with GIMP

Description

In this activity, you'll learn how to create a drawing from a photo. This is a cool process that starts with an actual photo, but turns it into something that looks like a drawing or painting. Even if you feel like you're not a good freehand artist, these skills will allow you to create some very cool art.

In this activity, you will:

  • Use layers in drawings
  • Make drawings from photos
  • Create different effects using a variety of brushes
  • Design a desktop tile

Skills you will learn include:

  • Using layers, a very powerful tool for manipulating images
  • Using brushes, which give you lots of control over how your images look

Basic Steps

  1. Visit Giant Campus Digital Graphics Lab
  2. Select Workshop 3: Drawing with GIMP
  3. Go through the pages of the Workshop. In the Workshop, there are 3 labs. For each lab, you will use Gimp to create or modify a picture.
  4. When you have completed the Workshop, submit your images using the Submit button on the activity page. You will have at least 3 images, one for each lab. You may submit more, but you must submit at least 3 images for this activity.
  5. Go to the forum, post links to your submissions, discuss what you learned, and share any cool tricks you may have discovered while working with the Gimp drawing tools.

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tile

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Drawing

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abstract

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