Gimp+2.0

OBJECTIVE:
To tell you about GIMP 2.0 and also show you how to make high-contrast pictures and a few helpful tips and tricks.

REQUIREMENTS:
All you need is GIMP and a imagination.

STEP BY STEP:
This is a tutorial on GIMP 2.0 probably one of the best freeware graphic editors out there.

Very Simple layout but it has what you need and does not what you don't.

Heres be the toolbox The pictures do what they look like that do. cut, bend, smudge, erase, stamp, burn, fill bucket, paint, pencil draw, text....... ITS SIMPLE

but now I'm gonna show you something cool. its high intensity contrast pictures.

You find a picture with high contrast. This will do for me.

okay so first you gray scale the picture by going to image>mode>grayscale and then add a new transparent layer by clicking layer>New Layer. Then you must re open the original picture in gimp again

Then you copy the gray scale picture and paste it over top of the original picture. and use the erase tool to change the gray scale back into color and you will therefore create a picture with intense contrast from gray to color like this

BOOM BABY its done.

SUMMARY:
GIMP is a great again... FREE program that is a great tool if you learn how to use them right. You can do layer effects and all the good photoshop stuff without the price.Go ahead go try to high-contrast a picture, find a picture follow the tutorial and do it.