The rule of thirds is a composition rule that helps you compose an image to make it more pleasing to the eye.

Objective:

Use Gimp to crop an image using the rule of thirds.

Example:

The original image was cropped so that the head of the fox is in the lower right third of the image.

Lesson Objective:

• Crop a picture

Example:

The image above was cropped to create a the new image below with a more panoramic feel to it.

Color Scheme Designer is a slick little free website that can help you coordinate your colors for any design project. Some of the nice features of this little website are:

• Export colors to: HTML+CSS, Photoshop, Gimp
• Color blindness preview
• Unique color scheme links so you can came back to your same settings.