More Celebrity Sightings at 808!

A few months back, there was a post about the power of GIMP, the freeware image-editing program. A few days ago, we dusted off the program and fired it up again, allowing the kids of 808-812 to see their heads on the bodies of their favorite celebrities, athletes and even cartoon characters! Check out the familiar faces that are now the newest 808-812 celebrities!

Above: Paulos, who wanted to be "the fat guy from Family Guy"
Below: Desi as his favorite singer, Michael Jackson, in the "Thriller" video.

Above: Doodie making his silliest face as the President of the United States.
Below: Davonte is the new face of the $100 bill.

Below: Davonte, Jhkyos and Feldano are the Celtics' newest "Big 3," just in time for the start of basketball season.

Want to start making your own funny pictures? Download GIMP here.

Want to put your face on a playing card, a logo or on any kind of money from all over the world? Check out a cool website that allows you to do just that here.

Image Editing Tips

Recently, we had a patron in the Computer Learning Center who was interested in learning how to edit pictures so that she could make them a custom size, add text to them, etc. and post them to a new website or message board.

While image editing is a handy tool, it's often hard to learn how to do due to the complexities involved in changing a picture.

The preferred image editing program here in the Computer Learning Center is GIMP, a free program designed to be an alternative to the expensive Adobe PhotoShop. However, GIMP is a confusing program to start out with, and can be tough to use if one doesn't know what he or she is doing.

Surprisingly enough, simply using the image editing program that comes standard on almost all personal computers, MSPaint, will usually suffice.

There are a variety of websites out there that offer tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your MSPaint experience, but here are a few favorites:

• MSPaint Tricks
• Neat Tricks in MSPaint
• Tips & Tricks for using paint

By following the above tips and getting lots of practice, one can become very skilled with MSPaint, and he or she can be creating fascinating works of computer art in no time.

Don't believe it? Check out the video below to see what MSPaint can do.

Celebrity Sighting at 808!

We had a famous face here in the Computer Learning Center at 808 Memorial Drive today...none other than famous NBA point-guard Paulos Rondo!

Above: Paulos the NBA star in action!

A staff member's iPhone was used to take a picture of Paulos, and then a freeware image editing program called GIMP was used to fuse the pictures together. The whole process is a bit more involved than simply "fusing together," but GIMP is a great little program to mess around with.

It's basically a freeware version of Adobe Photoshop, and allows the user to edit photos in all kinds of ways, from removing red-eye and defects to erasing blemishes or even adding heads to bodies.

More about GIMP can be found here, and the program can be downloaded for free here.

Below: The two photos that were used to make Paulos into an NBA All-Star.

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