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Image of puppy edited by Gimp 2 (?)

For my still image project, I decided to do a plug for shelter pet adoption. I used a picture of a black puppy (mine actually - his name is Barkley). He actually turned out to be a pretty good little model and really put on some adopt-me-please puppy dog eyes (just to be clear, this one's not available; although there are plenty more out there just like him just waiting to get out of puppy prison). I used the general plan that we went over in class: Because the background was so dark, I worked on the original image to make the dog appear darker by manipulating the contrast of the picture (under the color menu) so that he would stand out. Then, in the duplicate image, i adjusted the hue so as to make the background was out a bit and put more focus on the dog (this also helped take focus off of the other dog's tail in the right of the picture). Then, after layering the two images, I used the paintbrush tool to color over the dog, thus creating a transparency that let the adjust darker image show through. After that, I added my text and you can view the finished product here: