Mucking About in GIMP (Or, Photo Editing Exercise)

     While being in London will be enchanting, I actually do have a purpose for going there, and that is to take two classes on multimedia.  This will include taking many pictures, videos, and sound recordings around the city in order to create such projects as a podcast, a digital video, this blog, and several other Web 2.0 assignments.  That means you will not only be subjected to my philosophizing on this blog, but my assignments as well!  So, to start off, we have my Photo Editing Exercise.  These exercises are just to get me comfortable with the photo editor (GIMP 2.8).
     Below you will find a photograph I took of Prating Angus, my mascot for the program; you will see him pop up in my pictures regularly.  If you don't recognize him, he is an invention of author Sir Terry Pratchett, a Nac Mac Feegle ("also known as Pictsies, the Wee Free Men, the Little Men, 'Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed', 'That's him, the third one from the left!", and occasionally 'the Defendants'").  Feegles are small, blue men who fancy mischief, fighting, and general skulduggery.  I hope he doesn't get me into too much trouble in the UK! This guy was knitted (!) for me by librarian Marie Kelly (Thanks!) and makes the perfect mascot.

And cropped:

And the cropped image with two effects-
Extreme contrast:

Predator vision:

GIMP is a neat (and free!) photo editing program which takes a bit of getting used to (I'd like to take this time to thank those who post GIMP tutorials on YouTube.com) but has some pretty cool results.  More edited photos to come!