Image editing is a great way for
students to learn how to manipulate and get involved with the work they are
producing. They will be able to learn the processes of altering images. The
images can be digital photographs, regular photos found on the internet or that
they have taken, or even illustrations they have drawn.
Adobe Illustrator is one image editing
tool that can be used outside or even inside the classroom. Illustrator is the
companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward
digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration,
while Illustrator allows you to manipulate your work in a way that creates
results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. This is great for a
classroom when designing projects or in graphic designs. Art projects can be
based around the use of these designs or in designing layouts for a tech or
yearbook class. Although the program is not free to use, there is a free trial
run and if you and your students like it maybe could see about going to the
school board for approval to buy the subscription? There are numerous tutorials
you can take to learn the graphics tools and editing options available on the
program as well.
Another image editing tool that is very
user friendly is Paint.NET. This is a program designed for personal computers
that run Windows. It was created at first as a free replacement for the
Microsoft Paint software that comes free with Windows and has now developed into
an image and photo editor tool that is easy to use. As the website states it
has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as
Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
These are all other photo editing programs as well just not free to use. I remember using Paint as a child on our home
and school computers. The program always came free with the computer and
allowed you to draw and copy and paste onto different documents. Paint.NET has
made this easy and fun to use tool into something more advanced that can be
used at home or in the classroom for photos or pictures in assignments or
projects. More information on the program can be found at www.getpaint.net
No comments:
Post a Comment