Picture editing tutorial

Hello! I've came back for now to bring you a photo editing post. To start off, you need to download Gimp (don't worry, it's free!)

Here are some images I found on a website that I edited.
This is the image I saved:

These are some after I played around with it.

Now I can teach you to easily do lots of fun stuff with gimp.
1. Download an image. For this I've used this image (don't worry, it's public domain):

To change the colour of the whole thing like in my second picture, you click on the colour bar,  and select the 'Colourise' option. Then you mess around with the bars and that changes the colour!The first changes the colour, the second the strength of the colour and the third its lightness.....you'll understand better when you try it. :3

Make it look old and worn:  First select the filter bar and go down to decor.  This is the one you will be choosing from every time for this one. To start select 'old photo' and carry it out on default. Then you go on fuzzy border. After that you pick the coffee stain one and reduce the stains to 1. Click OK, and see the result of your masterpiece!

This one is really fun: all you do is select 'Filter' and go on Edge-Detect and select Neon. Then you can mess around with the settings and select OK! :)

That's all for now but don't be afraid to upload your creations in the comments or email me! :) You can also do a lot with the filter section, s mess around with it! See what you can do and show me. :3

wiki, wiki, wiki

Have you ever noticed how many wikis are out there?

There's a Pixar wiki, a lyrics wiki (it is SO useful for finding songs that you only know the lyrics to!)

Here are some wikis that I am into

Marvel Wiki

Bacon wiki

Disney wiki

Coffee wiki

P.S. Just to say, I'm going to take a break from blogging for a while. I'll see you all when I come back!

Bye!

The funnest song to play on the piano ever!

This song's called Tarantella and it's one of my 1st grade exam pieces. I got home from school today having been told to learn it and I went on it, played a few times and somehow and hour and a half had flown by and the side of my thumbs were almost bleeding.

P.S I play the left hand part quieter than this, don't worry! :P

It's easier than  I thought to play! :D

Where have I gone?

Hey everyone!

Maybe you have realized that I'm not posting as often as before. Well one reason is that I have to juggle school, blogging, art,  and other stuff around and I'm just trying to get back into the motion of it.  But I am also hatching many plans. If I tell you, you will be excited. I am NOT sure if it is happening for sure so I'll just keep my mouth shut.
Until then, here's my top ten lists!

Top ten movies:
1. Up
2.The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 1
4. Toy Story 2
5. Monsters Imc
6. Toy Story 3
7. X-men First Class
8.Polar Express
9. Bugs Life (everyone forgets about poor old Bugs Life!)
10. Coraline

Top 10 comics (I read more comics than books!)

1. Fruits Basket volume 11
2. Arnzi Aronzo's Hour
3. Fruits Basket volume 6
4. Hana Kimi volume 4
5.  Skip Beat
6. Captain America (I can't remember which one :P)
7. Mammoth book of Manga 2
8. Mammoth book of Manga 3
9. Naruto 3
10. Halo Bloodline


Top ten colors

1. Blood red
2. Forest green
3. Navy blue
4.Black (though technically that's just a tone)
5. Sky blue
6. Aubergine
7. Turquoise
8. Royal blue
9.Velvet red
10. Lime green

Top 10 foods

1.Cranberry and cheese pie
2. New York cheesecake
3. Mint Choc chip ice cream
4. 'Chips'n' cheese'
5. Croissants
6. Cinnamon rolls
7.  Avocados (in anything)
8. Froot loops
9. Betty Crocker icing
10. Carrot cake

Ways to make your coffee (and hot chocolate) time full of awesomeness

Are you bored by the boringness of coffee time? plain old coffee with milk making you dread coffee time? Well look no further!

1. Buy flavor syrups. You can make a basic latte by putting some espresso (I actually use regular coffee :P) in a cup (fill it about a sixths of the cup) and fill the rest with hot milk.  You can buy syrups at Starbucks and various grocery stores. Gingerbread is my favorite, but get a few and experiment. See what is good with what. Just make sure they're in date! I know that from experience.


2. Spices. You can upgrade your coffee to make it taste like t isn't coffee. Put a little bit of allspice in your coffee. Or a light sprinkle of nutmeg. Or a bucket load of cinnamon. I like how you can put tons of cinnamon into coffee,  but if it's too much for you, make some cinnamon sugar and put that in instead.

And why just limit syrup and spice to coffee? It is just as good in hot chocolate. (spices are especially good in dark hot chocolate). In fact now I drink a lot more hot chocolate than I do coffee, and I always put cinnamon in mine <3!

3. Just drink something else instead! Make some hot spiced apple cider! What I do is use a slow cooker and put two large-ish bottles of apple juice in. I then leave in a slice of an orange ( if you don't have any just use some orange juice. If you don't have orange juice either you can just leave it out all together) and a cinnamon stick in to soak.  Then I put in some cloves, nutmeg and allspice. TASTE AS YOU GO ALONG! That's the secret to success. After you add all the ingredients then leave it on the warm setting for a couple hours to let the flavors develop. Enjoy!
You can also find lots and lots of flavors of hot chocolate. Like candy cane, mint, white, dark, maple, gingerbread, peppermint, etc. If you want extra good hot chocolate then you can make it yourself. Now I'm about to show you the hot chocolate recipe that has lifted my spirits on the worst of days. It is the best hot chocolate recipe I have ever came across and my mom gave it to me a few months ago.


Put 1/4 of a cup of high quality semisweet chocolate chips, a teaspoon of sugar and 1/4 of a cup of milk in a microwavable mug.
Microwave it for 20 seconds, take it out and stir it, repeat until the chocolate chips melt into the milk.
Put 1/2 of a cup of milk into a microwaveable cup. Microwave it until it is hot.
Pour the milk into the rest of the mix, stir it, and enjoy!

So in 3 easy ways, you can enjoy your coffee time 10000000 times more.

P.S. I meddled with the comment so you should all be able to comment now. Hooray! :D