This article will be about how to use Gimp, the image editing Software to Make a Meme.
First of all what is a Meme anyway?
The “meme” word was first introduced by evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, in 1976. ”Meme” comes from the Greek word “mimema” (meaning “something imitated”, American Heritage Dictionary). Dawkins described memes as a being a form of cultural propagation, a way for people to transmit social memories and cultural ideas to each other. Not unlike the way that DNA and life will spread from location to location, a meme idea will also travel from mind to mind.
The majority of internet memes are transmitted by adolescents and post-adolescents. This is largely because these two demographics like to message, and have a playful curiousity about memes. But today, the average age of meme-transmitters has increased, as users over 30 years old discover the chuckles and humor about forwarding memes to their friends.
A “meme” is a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or social idea. A meme (rhymes with “team”) behaves like a flu or a cold virus, traveling from person to person quickly, but transmitting an idea instead of a lifeform. According to Cecil Adams of theStraightDope.com, the concept of memes “is either really deep, or really, really obvious”.
Historically, a meme is a discrete “package of culture” that would travel via word of mouth, usually as a mesmerizing story, a fable/parable, a joke, or an expression of speech. Today, memes travel much faster than simple speech. As internet email forwards, instant messages, and web page links, memes now travel instantly via the Internet.
If you want to Make a meme. Then you are in the right place.
This will give you the steps to go through to originally make a Meme.
If you realize how fast a meme can you viral, then you realize the power of the masses it can touch with the internet.
via dustinslade.com
Although this article may or may not be useful to my readers, it is another reference to GIMP, the free Photo Shop-like software. It is NOT Photo Shop. Not even close. But it will do a lot of useful things with you images and will acquaint you with some of the thins Photo Shop does until such time that you can spring for the real deal.
May I also mention that Adobe has a special promo for "Creative Cloud", which includes access to Photo Shop and a lot of other programs for a monthly fee. It is exclusively for teachers. I teach classes in Photography. Even in Photo Shop My wife is a teacher. Neither of us work for public schools, so when I plug in the name of who I or she teaches for, it does not recognize us as "real" teachers. This is their mistake. We could give them a lot of exposure. I will not buy it for retail prices though, because i don't necessarily use it. Maybe some of you can qualify. Do a search to find it.