Today I played around with GIMP and modified two images.
The first is of my son playing basketball:
- I isolate him
- desaturated the background
- applied linear motion blur to the background
- applied a canvas texture to the background
- cropped to isolate the action
I was happy with the overall effect.
The second was an attempt to cartoonify myself. This proved to be quite tricky. I couldn't simply reduce the number of colours in the image - it resulted in too much banding, loss of detail and edges. It took longer than I had expected.Not too happy with the final colours, but on the whole, it doesn't look too bad as a cartoon avatar.
eclectic, avuncular dilettante 