STEPS FOR EDITING BOOK AND JOURNAL
Downloaded Gimp 2.8 and Adobe Acrobat Pro
BOOK
TITLE PAGE
I used an old book and a Journal I got from the shelves of Makerere Margaret
Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts
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Book titled : They build for the future : A chronicle of Makerere University College 1922 – 1962
By Margaret Macpherson: Published by Cambridge University Press in 1964.
Journal titled: The East African Geographical review: June 1976 vol. no.14
Published by Jointly by Uganda Geographical Association Makerere University (Green in Color)
SCANNING: Scanned the title pages of the book and the journal in tiff and two other pages I
selected. Saved the scanned document as Tiff file
2. Digitizing Process the book and the journal :
 Selected the image – click Desk top – Select file – click on the page
3. Started Gimping editing as follows:Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then drew a border
around it, double clicked inside to keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 24 cm ( height) and 20.7
cm ( width). Then centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
Changed the document into Grey Scale, then selected Image, Mode
Greyscale.
Darking .Selected Tools, Coloured tools, levels. Then selected black point,
clicked on letter to make the text more darker, then dragged on of the
arrows right wards to make the page more clean and whiter.
Selected got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder i created, named
the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tiff,then exported the files in their
respective filing convetion.
Chapter 1
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it,
double clicked inside to keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 24 cm ( height) and 20.7
cm ( width). Then centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
After turned the document into Grey Scale. Selected Image, Mode, Greyscale.
Making the text more darker. Selected Tools, Coloured tools, levels. selected
black point, clicked on one letter in the text to make the text darker.Dragged
one of the arrow on the left hand side to make the the background more
white and cleaner. Then got the reaser and erased to cleanup spots.
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder i created, named
the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif and exported to its respective
file convention.
They Built for the future
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it,
double clicked inside to keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 24 cm ( height) and 20.7
cm ( width). Then centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
Turned the document into Grey Scale. Selected Image, Mode, Greyscale.
Making text darker. Selected Tools, Coloured tools, levels, selected the
black point and clicked on one letter in the text and the all document was
made more darker,Dragged one of the arrows on the left hand side to make it
more white and cleaner. Cleanedup with the reaser and erased the dirty
spots.
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder i had created,
named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tiff and after exported to its
respective file naming convention.
Creating a PDF File
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Downloaded Adobe – Acrobat XI Pro
Opened Adobe, selected multiple files, clicked combine files to PDF
Added the three files i.e the title page, content page and preface page ,
chose the folder, selected the files, opened and combined files
Right clicked to organise pages and label the pages and selected
number pages.
Selected begin new section, style None, prefix Title Page , start 1 and
then Ok and the same was done for both the content and preface
pages and saved.
Clicked the left margin, selected the blue ribbon, double clicked on the
book mark and then renamed it and saved.
I contiued to assign the Optical Character Recognition. Clicked tools,
selected Recognize text, selected “In this file” and after clicked ok.
Adding water mak, went to tools, clicked pages, water, add water
mark,then i typed digitizatized by Lilian Mudoola. I selected the
font.type “Arial”, font size “12”, colour “grey”, position “3mm” and
clicked ok there after.
JOURNAL
TITLE PAGE
Journal titled: The East African Geographical review: June 1976 vol. no.14
Published by Jointly by Uganda Geographical Association Makerere University (Green in Color)
Opened Gimp and started editing as follows:
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation and clicked ok.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it,
double clicked inside to keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 25 cm ( height) and 19.5
cm ( width). Then centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
Turned the document into Grey Scale. Selected Image, Mode, Greyscale.
Darking the text. Selected Tools, Coloured tools, levels picked the black point
and clicked on a letter and the whole article was made more darker. Dragged
one of the arrows left wise to make the document more whiter and
cleaner,then cleanedupwith the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder created, named
the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tiff and saved the document in its
respective file convention.
Absract
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation and clicked ok there after.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it,
double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 25 cm ( height) and 19.5
cm ( width). Centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
Grayscale. Selceted image, mode, greyscale
Then changed the text to a darker by going to tools, colour tools,click levels,
selected the black colour point and clicked on a letter in the text. Dragged
one of the arrows on left hand side to make it more bright in the background
and cleaner. Then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder created before,
named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif. I saved in their
respective file conventions
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation and clicked ok.
Cropping. Selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it,
double clicked inside so that keep the crop.
Canvas Size. Selected image, canvas. The size was 25 cm ( height) and 19.5
cm ( width). Then centered and resized the image.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
Turned the document into Grey Scale. Selected Image, Mode, Greyscale.
Then darking the text. Selected Tools, Coloured tools, levels. picked the
black point, clicked on one letter in the text to make the text darker.
Dragged one arrow to the left side to make the background more whiter and
cleaner,then got the reaser and erased the cleanedup spots.
Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i had created,
named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tiff and after i saved the
files in their respective filing conventions.
Creating a PDF File
Journal
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I downloaded Adobe – Acrobat XI Pro.
Opened Adobe, selected multiple files, clicked combine files to PDF
I added the three files i.e the subscription page, content page and
introduction page , chose the folder, selected the files, opened and
combined files
From there, i saved and typed the file named Annet Kibajjo
compressed journal
Selected organise pages, page labels, right clicked and selected
number pages.
Then selected begin new section, style “None”, prefix “Title Page” , start
“ 1”and then Ok. All the steps taken where carried out on the two
pages and then saved.
Then document, in the right margin, selected edit PDF, Add
bookmark, then the left margin, selected the blue ribbon, double
clicked on the book mark and renamed it and saved.
Continued to assign the Optical Character Recognition. Then
selected, Recognize text, selected “In this file” clicked ok.
Then added a Water mark. Selected tools, page, watermark, Add
watermark and typed “ Digitized by Annet Kibajjo
Nuwamanya.Selected the font type “Arial”, font size 12, colour grey,
position 3m ( vertical, bottom) and 3m ( horizontal, Right) and clicked
ok after.
IMAGE of Karamanjo woman carring her baby
Took Makerere University School of Fine Art and took a photo of the
sculpture using a camera. Opened Gimp and begun with editing.
Rotation: Selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of rotation was 0.50.
Croping.Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Drew a border around it, double
clicked inside to keep the crop.
Flattening Image. Selected Image, Flatten Image.
I don’t change the color so live the image in its original color becouse this
image is a Art presentation of the Karamonjo woman one tribe in Uganda
with a culture, giving the man freedom to give birth but not to look after
children. It is the responsiblity on a woman to care for the family.
Exporting File. Selected File, Export As, selected the folder had created,
named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tiff and saved in file
conventions.