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Manipulated Photography Self-Portrait Photo Collage Take many images or parts of images of the same thing or different things and combine them to create a new image. First take a picture of yourself. Second, use the tool that you learned in GIMP, to manipulated the your portrait. Third, look on the internet, clip art and scanned pictures for pictures to show your interests. Arrange the manipulated images in a new composition as your self-portrait.

Surrealism An art movement started in Paris around 1924 based on ideas of expressing the unconscious. An aspect of this movement was to combine objects that had nothing to do with one another into one image. Create an image which combines two things that would not ordinarily go together.

Distorted Portrait Take a photo of someone and then distort the person's picture using GIMP.

Colorize An Image Take one of your pictures and use the brush, bucket and other tools to radically change the color of your picture.

Paint a New World Keep the subject of your picture but remove the background and paint a new one. You can put your subject anywhere!

Disproportionate Photograph Take one of your pictures and either change the scale of an object, objects or people in the picture. You may also use objects or people from other pictures.

Where am I? Take a picture of a friend or have someone take a picture of you. Then, take another picture of a place that you would not expect to see a person. Put yourself or your friends in that surprising place. You may also use objects or people from other pictures.

Untruthful Photograph Take a picture and add something to the picture that wasn't there. For example, you may download a picture of Paris from the internet and put yourself in the picture or you may take two pictures you took and put an object or person from one picture in the other. Make sure that the picture looks as realistic as possible. The goal is to fool people into believing the picture.

Who's in school? Take a picture of a school corridor or classroom and download images of famous people or cartoon characters and put them in the school. Be sure to download a large size image. Get a photos of our school in my shared file. Repetition Take something from a picture and repeat it to create a new picture.

Transform an Image Select one of your pictures and then experiment with Filters to transform the image.

Every Picture Tells a Story What were they thinking? What would they have said? Take a picture of people and add text bubbles to the picture. You could create a pictures story book or comic book with your captioned pictures.