Photo Editing...

Lately I've really been into photo editing. My theory being that if I can edit pictures I take of Kaylyn well enough I won't have to have get expensive professional pictures taken as often. I tried a few different software programs, a Photoshop trial, Artweaver, and Gimp. I finally decided on Gimp. It's relatively easy to use, it has all the features I need and it's free!

GIMP stands for The GNU Image Manipulation Program. You can download it as free shareware here. There is also a manual that you can either download to your computer or read online. I found that the program itself is very easy to use, if you have a basic concept of layers and filters you'll do fine! However, the manual was kind of frustrating to read. It felt incomplete in some ways, like the person writing it wasn't the person who created all the features. If you have a specific problem or task there is really only a 50% chance you'll find it in the manual, in most cases you'll only find a similar situation and then will have to work out the rest of the details yourself. In general GIMP is really not any more complicated then Photoshop and it is a lot easier than Artweaver. So if you are looking for a free, only semi-complicated program I would definitely suggest checking it out!!

Here are some of the pictures I have edited so far... right now I've mostly been doing the whole black and white with a little color thing... here's what I got!