Computer Graphics

Labs

The practical experience gained during the labs is focused on creating and editing 2D raster graphics. The labs are optional and the tutorials performed during the labs can be found here.

We will be using GIMP as the base program, though you are free to do your projects or the tutorials in a program of your choice (e.g. Photoshop, Pixlr, etc.).

Here are some useful sources to help you with GIMP and also some nice tutorials to play with:

And here are the lab tutorials:

#Tutorial
1 Starting with GIMP
2 Basics: Layers
3 Basics: Masks
4 Basics: Selection
5 Basics: Selection II
6 Basics: Paths
  Exercise: Round Web 2.0 Button
7 Basics: Colors
  Exercise: Smoke figure
8 Photo manipulation: Portrait retouching
Download source photo
  Exercise: Perfect masking using a highpass