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Activity 5: Photo editing (Gimps)
Using paint was my means of getting my photos edited or calls a professional to design or create
photos or posters for me. Paint is much easier and friendly for me to use so I grew to love using
paint any time I need to edit a photo. The Lecturer, introduce Gimps, I was thinking why we
need this plus I never heard of gimps until then. The idea I have to download it to my laptop
even makes me angrier. I really didn’t see the need to learn Gimps.
I didn’t have no choice but to give it a shot and try learn how to use gimps. It was difficult at first
as I was lost but tampering on the different types of tools, I became creative and started to
understand the real use of Gimps. It is same as paint but has more features that can be used to
assist one in creating classroom presentations. We were given a task to create a diagram that was
done by the lecturer, I didn’t get it at first try but by continuing trying over and over I eventually
complete the task. One will ask me if I would use gimp again and my answer will be no as I still
prefer paint but the experience in Gimp was great.
We were given a home assignment to create our own photo editing by using Gimps. We were to
take a classroom setting photo as our back ground and include photos of a national symbol, gimp
and tux and a small note saying tux meet gimp. I completed the assignment and was also able to
assist other colleagues in getting their assignment complete. The assignment was to be saved in
two files , xcf file and jpg file.