This took me around 31/2 hours work on GIMP, but that did included the TEN TIMES it crashed!!! damn it!!
a new layout of before/after 
that way you can see em bigger.
This was done using mostly the fuzzy erase tool. Aaron was teaching me how to do mist (picture2) on the phone - all you do is use the white fuzzy brush tool at about 30% opacity. I never knew that. Go figure!!
Hope you all like!! 
Before and After 
As you can see, I had both sides of the building to re-build. The left side was the easiest, because that only required parts of the images I already had - like bricks. The right side however was a nightmare, because I had to re-build the window without much window to work with. I then added colour to a grayscale which was my mistake because I foolishly rebuilt the damn thing on black and white instead of the original because I thought grayscale would look better and it didn’t. So I added colour by adjusting the curves via red, and then changing hue of certain areas and then adjusting the colour balance. I feel so relieved it is over!
Before/After
And a picture of all of the TEAM
Me, Hannah, Skelly and Liz!
And some photos of Liz and Hannah :
Liz!
Hannah!
<3
Another really simple edit. I copied the tree on the left, scaled it larger, flipped it and pasted it over the leafy things so it joined up with the tree behind them, added in a ray of light by selecting a light ray sort of shape, feathering it and then adjusting the curves of that selection, and then played with the colours!
So I was rooting through my old youtube uploads, and I found this video of me when I was about 6 singing to weird song, so I thought I’d post, since you’d all seen aaron being cutesy as a kid! i am not sure what the gold wig is for, but i’m pretty certain i’m supposed to be an alien. in a nativity.
(click to enlarge)
So what I did for this shot, was drag Julius up the hill, and then took some shots of me, and then moved Julius around the hill, keep my tripod in the same place. This made him easier to edit in, which I did using a large eraser circley brushy thing on GIMP. I used a 10 second self timer on Julius, because he wouldn’t stand up on his own so I had to hold him up.
9 days till Aaron time! He’s asked me to look at some resturants to go to when we are in NYC, and holy crap some of them are posh!! Four seasons has a dress code - and if you don’t bring a jacket, you have to borrow one of theirs!! I mean woah!! Thats insane!!!
Can anyone recommend anywhere?
Sleep time for me now. Mmm, my eyes are droopy
So this shot was pretty basic. Not a whole lot of editing went into this, just some cloning, rotating, superimposing and “clearing” of the field and those damn bulls (you can see one of them eyeing me up in the before picture!!! grrr).
As you can see - I added the post in afterwards. This was because it turns out it is really hard to push a pole into solid rock, and so I had to hold it up:
and yes I really did wear that to walk up there - it is cold out and the woods are muddy so trainers were appropriate! and it turns out they were very useful when it came to running away from angry bulls.
11 days!!!! (almost 10!)
