Digital Photography

 

 

 

Putting songs and video together in a pod cast can be a very powerful way to get a message across.

 

First we are going to learn a little bit about digital photography

 

 

1. Open up MS Word

 

2. From the menu choose INSERT--> picture-->from-->file

 

3. Locate the picture you want

 

4. Now you can use the picture tool bar to add effects- we will practice this in class

 

5. Our next step is to insert a chart into MS Word.

 

6. You can get the chart from tool bar.

 

7. After we have enlarged the chart we will be using the same picture in 6 boxes using a different

effect on each picture. Isn't it amazing to see how different the same picture can look using special effects?

 

 

 

Where to locate free pictures!

 

YOU MAY ONLY Use the following sites to gather photo's

 

http://www.pics4learning.com/

 

http://www.kidsclick.org/psearch.html

 

http://www.askkids.com/

 

 

Do not use google images or tag galaxy for in school searches.  You may only use Google Image Search when I have presearched  the allowed Keyword. Then sand only then may you searxh using only the keywords I provide!

 

 

 

 

 

 

***You may no longer use tag galaxy nor Google images- Apparently there have been some inappripriate pictures discovered at home-so we will be blocking the sites.***

 

 

 

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Second we will use Ms Photo editor to crop, resize and change

 

our pictures.

 

 

Click on the powerpoint below to go through the steps to edit a picture

 

You will need to have powerpoint or open office presenter installed on your home computer!

 

editingimageslong.ppt 

 

 

Below are some written step by step directions as well:)

 

 

 

Start Photo Editor

 

 

source taken from: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6470/photoed.htm?200712#Embed

 

Embed an image	Quit Photo Editor	Create a new image
Open an existing image	Preview an image before opening it	Create a new image with a colored background
Save a new image	Save an existing image	Save a copy of an image
Choose the quality factor for a JPEG image	Close an active image	Select all or part of an image
Resize a selection	Rotate an image	To otherwise rotate an image
Zoom in or out of an image	Smudge part of an image	Sharpen part of an image
Create transparent areas in an image	Adjust the brightness of an image	Adjust the contrast of an image
Select all or part of an image	Resize a selection	Copy all or part of an image
Move and paste a selection within the same image	Move all or part of an image to a different image or file	Erase all or part of an image
	Cancel or remove a selection

Microsoft Photo Editor.doc

 

 

 

You can download the document above if you want to keep a copy or use it at home.

 

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Third Assignment- You know that thing I have to Grade

 

 

After all that work to fix up our pictures we are now going to gather 20-40 pictures around a central theme such as: hope, freedom, faith, tolerance, friendship, loyality, respect ect.

 

Plan

Draft a StoryBoard that plans the story/narrative

	Ideas???  Web Tutorial (really do look at this!)
	Launch Word, (Insert Picture, from File) Format Pic by right clicking, layout, behind text Select one or more quotes around your theme.

 

 

Make your Pictures into Works of Art

 

 

 

 Creates My Theme: http://www.blibs.com/editor/?action=warhol

 

Pixlr is a free online photo editor http://www.pixlr.com/

 

Really cool photo effects: http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/photoop.htm

 

Pic Zap add speech bubbles http://www.pizap.com/

 

Turn image into Pop Art http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/warholizer.php

 

 

 

 

Photo Story 3 

 

 

1. We will be importing the pictures into the program Photostory. This program is installed on our work stations at school. If you want a copy for home go to  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx 

it is a free download from the microsoft site.

 

Ideas???  Launch Microsoft PhotoStory from you desktop You can find it in the program folder or you can locate it from the start menu.

Create! by following the steps from the Web Tutorial perhaps open the tutorial window side-by-side with PhotoStory

 

2. Next we will select music that goes with our theme and record it along with the pictures. You will be aloud to do a voice over introductionusing the microphone.

 

3. When your project is finished we will save as WMP files and turn into podcasts!

 

Ready....Set......Think>>>>>

 

Here is a copy of the rubric I will be grading you on

 

Digital Storytelling grading rubric.doc 

 

FREE Microsoft Download of Photo Story

 

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