Visions of Lleida

What does vision mean? If we look up in a dictionary we will find different meanings for vision.

• a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" • sight: the ability to see; the visual faculty

• the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from

the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light"

• imagination: the formation of a mental image of something that

is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

• a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance;

"he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"

So in this workshop we are going to observe Lleida, our city , from different visions and points of view: its monuments, the river, the countryside, the weather…...as they are or as we would like to imagine them. We will work with photos and we are going to modify them using different programs meanly Cartoonist and GIMP, both are free software graphics editor. Primarily, GIMP is used as a tool for photo manipulations, such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image format. Session 1 Looking for photos: Google, Flickr, Photosearch…. Find several photos related with Lleida and keep them in your folder in T – Alumnes – Cicle superior – level – your number. Installing Cartoonist and learn how to modify pictures. Session 2 Gimp: Titles Modifica: grandaria, moure, retallar.. i Guarder fotos Session 3 Capes, borrar,… Sesision 4 Aplicar modificacions de tot tipus.