I just finished teaching my classes about GIMP last week. It's a free image manipulation software package for Linux and it's also available on Windows. Kinda like Photoshop, just not quite as powerful or nowhere near as expensive. I was real impressed at how many of the kids actually went out and got the program. About 10-15 kids went and downloaded the program all by themselves and I've burned about 5 install CD's and given to others who don't have a high speed connection. They learned real basic stuff like cutting themselves out of a picture and adding text to things. Their big assignment was to recreate a magazine cover. In their free time, I showed them some tricks like making black and white photos with a splash of color and stuff like that. Anyway, yesterday a girl brought me an old picture of her grandmother and wanted to learn how to restore it. I got started showing her how to do it and the next thing you know I got really into it and finished it off for her. I've never had one look so good. Now I think I'm going to have to try this out with some of our old photos.
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