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5. Select the bucket tool -- the one that pours paint -- and change the color to white (by double-clicking on the upper of the overlapping squares below the tools, and then selecting white when the menu comes up). This is best done zoomed in all the way(View -> Zoom 400%, for instance), until the person is very grainy and pixellated. Click all over the background (not the person's face) to eliminate as much as possible.

6. Select the eraser paintbrush tool and make it as big as possible. Eliminate large regions of the background with by painting it white (color should still be white from the eraserpaint bucket above), and then make it the brush smaller to get the last bits out of small areas in your photo.

76a. DoubleNow is a good time to change the color of the picture. Go to Tools -click on > Color Tools and use Curves or Brightness/Contrast to make your picture light and bright. (Levels won't work as well because of the upper square again and put 363237 where large amount of white space.) Now is probably also a good time to save your picture. Save it in GIMP file format so as not to compress it says ffffff(.xlf file extension, I think).

7. Double-click on the upper square again and put 363237 where it says ffffff (ffffff is white; 363237 is Evan's special color for the background of WSO). 8. Use the paint bucket to "pour " that color in the blank white background. There will be white pixels along the outline of the person's face; don't worry about this for now.

10. Blow up the image until it is very pixellated again(View -> Zoom 400% or 800%, for instance). Select the brush tool with a small brush (since the image is very small now) with color 363237 and click along the edges of the person's face so as to eliminate the lightness that comes from the bucket-erasing technique above.

11. Save your image. This is where, to the best of my knowledge, GIMP failscomes up a bit below PhotoShop, because GIMP does not, to the best of my knowledge, have a "Save for web" option. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Save it as a jpeg.

12. 16. Now you're ready to upload your creation. Visit http://wso.williams.edu/front/upload and fill out the forms, and cross your fingers.