Ashley's E-Portfolio

Image Editing

This is the book cover that I created in Module 1. I am currently reading Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I used GIMP to create a montage of several bitmap images, combined with text, to create the cover for this book.

I created a logo for an instructional designer, since that is what I hope to be when I am finished with this masters program. For the lightbulb, I started with a circle using the ellipsis tool. I changed the fill color to a light orange. Next, I used the squares and rectangle tool to create a square at the bottom of the circle. I used the align and distribute dialog to align the objects vertically. Then, I turned them into a single object by going to path and choosing path union. After that step, I switched to the nodes tool. I went to show transformation handles for selected nodes to narrow the base of the lightbulb. I went back to path and chose path effects to round the corners of the circle to create the bulb shape. For the metal parts of the bulb, I used the squares and rectangle tool to insert a rectangle. I used control + D to duplicate the shape and changed the color to medium gray. To insert the text, I used the text tool. To resize the text to the size I wanted, I clicked and dragged the diamond.