Lakin Farm

There are a couple of photo editing programs that I use, but the one I like best is Gimp.

It is not the easiest software to get to grips with but as its free you can’t grumble. I use Gimp to touch up my photos and remove things I don’t want (lampposts etc).

These examples, although not very good, give an idea of the types of things you can easily do with photo software these days.

For this picture I set up my camera in a fixed position, asked John Luke to do a few poses, then merged the resulting pictures into a single image.

This picture used the same principles as above but added the idea of John Luke interacting with his clone. To do this we put the tray on a brick and took one picture with John Luke holding the glass, then another with him holding the tray. As before the images were merged together (using Gimp) and the brick was ‘airbrushed’ out.

The glass has blackcurrant juice in it, in case you were wondering.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Abby, she has a Mona Lisa-esque smile. I used this to practice a bit of morphing. I have seen software that lets you mess around with peoples faces and make them look strange.

Luckily you can do the same with Gimp.

I don’t really like this picture, its a bit freaky.