Images - Project #1 - Working With Layers - Video 1

I'm going to go find my folder, which is on my desktop. I go on again projects. I'm going to go inside a working with layers. And I'm going to call this ostrich. I'll save the image. And that's one, and then the other file that I have to find is of the school. The school that I'm using is good stem. Academy. And this image here is the one that I want. So I'm going to right click on this. Save image ads. And I'm going to call this school. And save. So now I have both my ostrich and my school and I'm going to double check inside of my gimp projects. Working with layers, and I have both of my images. So I'm just about ready to start. So now the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to open up gimp. And gimp may take a second the first time that you are opening it up. Because it has to load a lot of files that may not have been previously loaded. So once this is ready, you get a nice screen like this. 

There should also be a bar over here, and another bar over here. I actually did this intentionally in case you over close it out. Incorrectly, I'm going to go to windows and go to recently closed docs. I'm going to open up layers channels, paths, and there's one. Click on Windows and toolbox tool options. If you already have everything great, there's no big issue whatsoever. So the first image I'm going to open is I'm going to go to my desktop. On the left hand side here, and go find my gimp projects. Working with layers. And I'm going to select ostrich, and you can tell that I'm inside of the working with layers because here's gim projects, here's desktop, and that's exactly where we put it. So I'm going to open up my asterisk. And I have a nice picture here of the ostrich. If you want to zoom in because maybe you feel like this is too far away. One thing that you can do is you can select the zoom, which is right here, the magnifying glass. And you can zoom in once. So this looks to be about pretty good for me. 

Now after I've done that, I'm going to go back to, I'm going to consolidate this a little bit. The next thing that I'm going to do is I have to figure out how I'm going to edit this image. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a copy of this ostrich. So I'm going to right click on my layer, which is over here. And I'm going to duplicate the layer. Another way that you could have done this is you could press this button down here, which also duplicates it as well. So now that I'm clicked on my ostrich JPG copy, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a filter to basically make this image black and white so that I can cut out this whole other section here because as you can tell, the computer is going to be able to pick up that there is quite a bit of color difference here between the gray and this lighter area over here. So I'll click on filters. And my apologies, I'm going to pick on colors. And you're going to select threshold and when you select threshold, you notice that the image has basically gone to black and white, and we wanted to be in this area. 

We want it to be as much black as possible, because the more black that we have in this area, the less editing we will have to do later, which I'll explain to you here in a second. So if you slide this, you can see that there is more detail that's popping up as we're going through. If I go all the way down to the lowest and get nothing. So I would say probably about one 47 is pretty good. So now that I have this at one 47, I'm going to click okay. And basically what I'm going to do now is I'm going to color this in with a matching color and that matching color is going to be black. So I'm going to click on this paintbrush right over here. And make sure that your color is set to black. And you'll see that if you click on this circle right here that there's a couple different options, there's this one that has a softer edge, and as you color it in, you notice that there's this little fill on the end. But the brush that I'm actually going to select is going to be the hardness set to 100. 25 is the brush size that I have. 

I'm actually going to go a little bit bigger so that it makes this job a little bit easier. So I'm going to select 50. I'll hit enter. And now you can notice that my brush has gotten a lot bigger. So now I'm going to color this in. Like so. And I want to get as much area as I think belongs to the ostrich. Without losing any of my image. So I'm going to basically color in this entire area. Like so. And all the way until we have pretty much a big giant black blob, which is what we have right here. So now that I've done that, I also need to erase this area over here so that there's a clear difference in the two areas so that I can work my selection tool. So what I need to do now is I need to come over and click the eraser. And you can notice that my eraser is already set. It's set to a size of 50, which is what I have right here. And as I'm sliding through, I can start erasing like so. And you should be doing the same. And just try to get as close as you can.