Week 8

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Ok, so I think I'm starting to get the hang of GIMP.  Slowly but surely for sure but it's starting to make more sense to me the more I play with it.  The layers portion is still a little confusing but the color and filter tools are much easier to grasp and understand.  

#1-I simply used the fuzzy select tool and made blue the color of my background.  

#2-This was a photo from a previous week.  I used the color tool and played around with the hue saturation.  I settled on a dull green.

#3-Same thing except this time was a brighter green.  I think with these selections, the color option has a greater effect due to the dark foreground of the original photo.  

#4-Again, a photo from a previous week however I dove into the filters option in GIMP. I used Render/Clouds as well as Artistic/Apply Canvas.  There are a lot of different options and I could easily drive myself nuts playing around with all of the different combinations.  I had to stop myself once I finally found one I liked.  

I see that the sky is certainly the limit with these types of programs but with A LOT more practice I'm hoping to get more proficient at using them.