Balls and Walnuts
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Fun with Gimp
As I have mentioned, I could have spent several hundred dollars on Photoshop, but the ambient wisdom of the Internets suggested Gimp (freeware) was every bit as good, if not better, since it’s not a resource hog like Photoshop.
Here’s a cute trick (see tutorial here) employed on one of my favorite pictures of my son, shown here at age 12:
Compare to the original:
Not quite as dramatic a change as the examples given in the Gimp tutorial, but then I’m not an amazing photographer. But I’d love to see what Dean could do with this stuff.
D.
