HP Demo: HP Better Photohttp://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/tours/
Automatic Mode
Composing the image. (you)
Autofocus center or closest object
Autoexposure. Light reflecting from the scene-medium gray
Autoflash. Low light
Automatic white balance. Color of the light: incandescent (warm), Outdoors (Cool) Fluorescent (green)
Tripod
Quality of image- number of pixels used to create the image.
3 megapixels 8X10 PhotoShop Demo on image sizes
F-stop- depth of field
Shutter speed – stop action
ISO light sensitivity
Photography
Photographs will be taken with digital cameras. All images must be processed in Adobe Photoshop. Before you start taking pictures, you need to learn a little bit about photography.
Enclosed in your packet are some of the basic rules of composition. They can be found at http://www.100megspopup.com/len92/Art/photography.html. These are rules that help you take better pictures. Go to http://pics.tech4learning.com on the Internet and look at some of the pictures that other teachers and students have taken. You may also use www.flickr.com, which features the works of some great amateur and professional photographers. Since you may be taking most of your pictures here at school, check out the section on schools on the tech4laerning site. This will help give you some ideas of what photographs you can take here at KRMS. Choose three pictures that you like and see if you can identity any of the rules of composition. Copy and paste those three pictures into Open Office Writer and identity what rules were used and explain why you like the pictures. When you have completed this exercise, see Mr. Davidson about learning how to use Adobe Photoshop to manipulate and alter you pictures. After you have learned the basics of Photoshop you will be ready to start taking your own pictures. You will create a slide show in PhotoStory 3 or PowerPoint and you will create at least three collages that will be printed and handed in with your name on the back. You may use your collages as part of your slide show.
Examples of free software for editing photos:
www.snapfish.com/
https://www.photoshop.com/
Photostory3 is a Windows slide show software that can be downloaed from microsoft.com.
Photoshop Elements usually costs around $89.00.
Paint.NET
Equipment and Materials
Digital Camera $100.00 – $400
SLR Digital Camera $600.00-$4,000
Card reader $19.00
Batteries
Pack & Charger $32.95
Quest Ni-MH Gold Rechargeable $19.00
Computer
w/ minimum of 1 gig of RAM $500. +
Internet capability
Scanner $70.00 – $200.00
Adobe PhotoShop Elements (Gimp) or other photo software Free, $30.00-$100.00-$600.
Adobe PhotoShop educational price $160.00
Photo Quality Paper $1.00/piece
Printer
Inkjet/laserjet $50.00 – $500.00
Power Point, Impress, Photo story 3, Windows Movie Maker, I Movie, Big Huge Labs, Voice Thread, Show Beyond, Animoto, Kizoa, slide, slideroll, monoslideshow, RockYou, Image Loop
Digital Photo Rubric
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Digital Image | Not saved as jpg-
not in student’s folder-not on thinkquest.com |
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Saved as .jpg in incorrect folder or folders-correct folders but not saved as jpg. |
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Saved as jpg-in student’s folder-saved on thinkquest.com |
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Quality | Image is severely under or over exposed-out of focus or blurred | Poor exposure-and/or some blur | Fair exposure-reasonable sharpness | Good exposure- good overall sharpness | Excellent exposure-no distortion or blur |
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Creativity | Poor-no appeal to the viewer | Fair-image is there but shows no impact | Good but not exciting | Very good-minor changes would improve | Exceptional imagination |
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Composition | Poor-no evidence of rules of composition | Fair-image is compromised by lack of composition | Good-no evidence of pre-visualization | Very good- image would be improved by better composition | Effective uses of the rules of composition-image was pre-visualized |
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Presentation
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Poor print quality |
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Mediocre print quality |
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Excellent Print quality |
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Presentation Slide Show |
Slide show is disorganized-poor choice of audio |
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Organization could be better-audio is adequate |
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Well organized-excellent use of audio |
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Photo Shop Basics:
Crop-use Marquee-while image is large
Image Menu:
Show history to undo
Rotate Canvas
Check image size
Adjustments:
Levels
Color balance
Hue/Saturation
Collage:
Open two or more images
Make selections using:
Marquee tool
Magic wand
Lasso-Polygonal Lasso Tool or Magnetic Lasso Tool
Feather selection for a better blend
Use Move Tool to transfer to another image
Show Layers and choose Layer you wish to work on
Edit menu
Free transform-resize or rotate layer- hit enter when done-use move tool to move layer
Layer Menu:
Flatten Image
Use Clone tool to finalize blend
Make great Black and White digital images:
Image-Mode-Lab Color-select Channels-show Channels-select Lightness- discard A and B and (lab)- Image-Mode Gray Scale-Image-Mode-RGB-then use Image-Adjustments-Levels
Put the card in the card reader or connect your camera to the computer via the USB cable that came with your camera
Go to My Computer
Open the C Drive
Go to File- New-Folder
Type name of folder
You may need to right click the folder and choose rename to type in the name
Open the folder you have just created
Hit the middle square in the right hand corner so that the window is not full screen
Go back to My Computer
Choose the removable disk that contains your pictures
Hit the middle square in the right hand corner so that the window is not full screen
Both your newly named folder and your picture folder should be open
Double click
Select the pictures
Drag or copy and paste them into the folder you have created and named
You may or may not want to delete the photos on your disk
If you wish to print your images as they are, select at least one and follow the print steps to choose your sizes. This is a good way to print multiple images.
Go to Photoshop Elements or similar program
Crop now if you wish to do so
Check size of photo
Lighten or darken as needed
Perform other enhancements as needed.