Posts Tagged With: fifth grade technology

#6: Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Autofixes

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Jacqui Murray

We started with a list of Photoshop skills your fifth graders can accomplish. Yesterday we used MS Word for basic skills. You’re now ready for the one all the pros use: Adobe Photoshop.

Before I start, Adobe offers huge education discounts for Photoshop. If you don’t own it and your child likes art, graphics, computers, check it out. There’s also a open source version of Photoshop, but it escapes me at the moment. If you know that link, let me know and I’ll pass it on.

Open a picture in Photoshop
Go to ‘image-adjustments’. Try each of the ‘auto’ selections.
For example, click ‘auto levels’. The picture will change.
If you’re not sure about the ‘fix’, go over to the right side to the ‘history’ tab. It shows the last twenty-ish steps you’ve taken to format your picture. Click back to the original picture (at the top) and see the difference. You can click between the original picture and the step you’re at without loosing anything.

Here’s an example:

autoa

auto

Next, I’ll show you how to crop with the lasso and the magic wand.

–from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Preview available on Amazon.com and Scribd.com

#4: Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is Word

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Jacqui Murray

Before we get into Photoshop, we’ll start with a program your fifth grader is most likely comfortable with: MS Word. For basic image editing, Word does a pretty good job, so we’ll start with a project using Word’s tools:

Open a blank document in MS Word. Insert a picture with multiple focal points (see samples).
Duplicate the image once for each focal point.
Click one image to activate toolbar.
Crop each duplicate to show just one of the focal points Continue reading →