Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills. I’ve provided links but they aren’t live until publication:
- Photoshop artwork–already live
- Photoshop actions–already live
- Photoshop basics #5
- Photoshop filter and rendering tools
- Photoshop starters–auto-correct with the auto-correction — quick fixes that make a photo look cleaner #6
- Photoshop crop tool–with the lasso and the magic wand #7
- Photoshop clone tool– within a picture and to another picture #8
- Photoshop–change the background (put yourself at the Eiffel Tower or on Hoover Dam)–published here
- Photoshop tools–add custom shapes–already live
- Photoshop–start with Word (a little dated but still useful)
Get Started
This one you already know how to do if you’ve been following along through the book. Because it is a must-have in a school environment, I’m going to step it out for you.
- Have your child or students open a photo of themselves in Photoshop
- Use the cropping tools learned here to crop themselves out of the background
- Go to select-inverse to select the individual rather than the background
- Edit-copy (this will copy the student’s cropped picture)
- Open a picture of the background they’ve chosen
- Edit and then paste the picture they cropped into the background
Imagine, putting your students in the historic events you study together, in the landforms they learn about in science, or the natural math that appears in nature. Now, with this Photoshop lesson, that’s all possible.
PS–If you don’t have Photoshop, try the free download called GIMP.
–from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom.
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
