Green Celebrities!

On a Linux computer, you will learn how to edit several images in changing the skin color of several various people's images to green.
WHY GREEN? because St. Patty's is just around the corner and it's a green holiday.
You will learn how to use the free computer application called GIMP which stands for:
Gnu
Image
Manipulation
Program.
You are welcome to if you enjoy using GIMP download it for free on your computer at home (with your parents permission) it's a powerful image program much like photoshop but it's FREE!!!!

This assignment you must:

-Locate and download 3 to 5 images of people with visable faces.

-Use both methods of changing the skin to green.

-Practice on the remaining 1 to 3 images with the method you prefer.

The Grade

Timeline 1-2 days:

Day 1: Intro to project, Download 3-5 images, begin method 1.

Day 2: Continue method 1 or begin method 2, practice completing 3-5 images.

Download 3-5 Photographs from the Internet (DAY 1)To start, locate and download 3-5 images of people from the Internet, I would like to have these images be of recognizable people, meaning celebrities  (why?, maybe some odd person changed their skin green and you just download that image thus not having to do the work, also it's easy for us to find and generally considered fair use to use the images of public figures like celebrities). I found an interesting list of portland celebrities which you are welcome to go off of.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Portlanders Other celebrities to consider: Movie stars, musicians, athletes, tv personalities. Celebrities that wouldn't work: Puppets, cartoons, imaginary people,  Navi people, aliens, etc... The pictures MUST be school appropriate, you should know what that means by now, IF you don't know let me know and I can explain to you a little more personally what that means, and have a questionable image, then likely just get a different image.

Step 1: In the browser find an image you would like to download, an easy place to start is Google Image Search.

Step 2: Right click on the image to pull up the context menu

Step 3: Click on "Save image as"

Step 4: Designate (that means decide and choose) where you want the image to be saved to, I usually put them on the desktop or in my home folder, then click save.

What is GIMP and why are we learning how to use it?

GIMP is an image manipulation program much like the expensive and well known image manipulation program Adobe Photoshop. Using GIMP you have the ability to change the way digital photgraphs look in lots of different ways with the various tools provided and controls provided in the program. WHO CARES!!! --- WHY this is important...
This is important because as we go out into the real world you will be bombarded with visual images, we live in a very visual world, I believe that if you have a taste of how easy it can be to change the way a visual looks you will be less gullible and more skeptical when presented with an image in our visual world, consider the absurdity of believing everything you see exactly how you see it.
For examples of image manipulation check out worth1000

Method 1 turning the skin green using a color layer (DAY 1)Using the illustration below for assistance follow these directions. Assuming you open the image in GIMP.
Step 1: Open your layers dialog, then add a new layer.
Step 2: Change the foreground and background color accordingly to green.
Step 3: Using the Brush tool and the Eraser tool, on the new layer brush green covering all the skin.
Step 4: In the layers dialog, change the layers Mode: to Color.
Consider lowering the opacity of the green layer a little to smooth the look if it is over saturated with green.

Method 2 turning the skin green using a selection and Hue & Saturation (DAY 2)
Using the illustration below for assistance follow these directions. Assuming you open the image in GIMP.
Step 0: In the layers dialog duplicate the background layer.
Step 1: Using the Eraser tool, or the various selection tools to clear all but the skin from the image. 
Step 2: Once the skin is the only thing left in the layer change the HUE of the skin to a green color.
Now that you learned both ways to do about the same thing... (DAY 2)

Continue using whichever method you prefer or a mixture of both to achieve the results you want in your 3-5 green celebrities.

When finished with a green celebrity.Save them as either a filename.jpg or filename.png, either file type would be fine.
PNG will have the best quality.
JPG will be more versatile.
When done with all 3-5 choose your favorite one or two and copy and paste the files into the shared folder, subfolder green, then fill out THE GRADE.

These three celebrities are all from Portland, OR.