Photo Editing

ASSIGNMENT TITLE:
Photo Editing

USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
When editing photos there are lots of things that can be done. A teacher could edit a photo and replace a color with another to see if students notice the what is wrong in the picture. For example, trees may be changed from green to purple and one would hope students would notice something like that.
Photoshop has lots of great tools for students to explore and use to manipulate pictures. For the lower elementary level, teachers would be more likely to edit pictures for their students but upper elementary into high school would be able to understand Photoshop with practice and be able to manipulate photos on their own.
In the lower elementary creating a gif could be helpful to draw a students eye to what is most important on the screen. Teachers could create a pattern of colors with the gif and see if students could discover the pattern. A teacher could display a gif of the alphabet that they created for kindergarten students to recite on the daily. A gif may also be used to show math equations or formulas that would be useful to remember.

ISSUES TO CONSIDER:
There would need to be access to a computer and Photoshop software. Students would need to be able to locate photos under Creative Commons with an Attribution license. Photoshop is expensive but there is a 30-day trail offered. Teachers would have to base what students need to do and understand about Photoshop in that 30 days if the school is unable to afford the software. There would also need to be time to explore Photoshop. The software looks very confusing at first with all the tools and buttons that can be used or students would have to have really good screencasts to assist in their learning and use of the software. I do not believe that this tool would be helpful with younger students but the older students would be able to understand and pick up the ability to photo edit very quickly.

COPYRIGHT:

Manning, L. (photograph). (2005). Have a holly jolly christmas. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenmanning/1263256439/in/photostream/

Original Image

 Changed to black and white with my name inserted over top.

 Replaced the green with blue.

Cropped photo just a little then changed the brightness and contrast of the photo.