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Nearly Wordless Weds, My Girls via GIMP

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Published: September 18, 2013 -- Last Modified: September 18, 2013
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I felt like playing with graphics and making a digital photo frame for some images for our girls.  First I found an image I wanted to use as a frame in The Strand Magazine from 1894:
 

ORIGINAL

Strand37_0078

ALTER IMAGE INTO FRAME

I used a white brush in GIMP to white out the text. Then I added alpha (transparency) to the layer.  Then I use the select and cut functions to remove the images and followed up with the erase brush to extend the cut around the curved areas.  showing alpha
 

ADD IMAGES

P and G
Then I added images and text as layers and cropped and stacked them so the images lined up the way I wanted.  I transformed all images here into gray scale.

 ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

Here is another one I did, from different sources.
favs from 2013
 
Adorable, no?  I will print on photo paper add a small layer of matting and frame.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Categories: Blogging & Writing, Graphics, Home & FamilyTags: frames, gimp, out of copyright, photos, scrap-booking, victorian images

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