David Higgins

I actually can’t believe how easy this was to make. I did it within an hour.

I went to Google and found the image of this Dun Laoghaire College ID. I copied it to my photo-editing software for Mac, GIMP and got to work.

The image was easy. I just found a simple background and put myself in front of it to take a photo with my built in webcam. I cropped it and then pasted it over the existing image.

Next was the text. Starting with the bottom it originally read “Sept 1999 – August 2000. 2009 was simple to achieve as all I had to do was paste the 9 from the Date of Birth on top of the last 0. However 2008 was a problem. The number 8 looks quite amateurish as I had to manually shape an 8, it wasn’t easy. However with a pre-made 8 it was no bother to just change the date of birth from 79 to 89. This now reads that I am 19 going on 20 which most people agree I look!

Finally but most tricky was the Name. Erasing the existing name was easy but I had to use the title text to replicate my name. The letters D-A-I-H-G-N are all found in the title text however V and S were not. For the V I turned the A upside down and erased the middle of the A. Then for the S, I took the S from Sept and coloured it blue, kind of.

A paper print out of this should get me a student ticket at the cinema tonight. I’m going to see Inglorious Basterds with Jack and Niall.