Picasa is right there too :-)
You can create movies in picasa, in many ways this works similar to iMovie.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Why edit photos?
It's the difference between an 'OK' photo and a wow photo.
Photos are a way of telling stories. A photo is worth a thousand words.
While the photos of learning we want to share on class pages or as a record of the learning that is going on for individual students may not carry the same 'power' as the images you can find HERE, we can give even more value to the stories we are telling by making some changes to our images.
We talk about adding 'wow' words to the writing of year 1 and 2 students. Editing can be like the wow words of photos.
Ask yourself what story are you trying to tell with the photo, what emotions go with it and consider your audience when you go into edit mode. At the end of the editing process, consider whether you have answered those questions in the final image. Sometimes you need more than one image and that's where collages or slide shows come in!
Photos are a way of telling stories. A photo is worth a thousand words.
While the photos of learning we want to share on class pages or as a record of the learning that is going on for individual students may not carry the same 'power' as the images you can find HERE, we can give even more value to the stories we are telling by making some changes to our images.
We talk about adding 'wow' words to the writing of year 1 and 2 students. Editing can be like the wow words of photos.
Ask yourself what story are you trying to tell with the photo, what emotions go with it and consider your audience when you go into edit mode. At the end of the editing process, consider whether you have answered those questions in the final image. Sometimes you need more than one image and that's where collages or slide shows come in!
Picnik Anyone?
Picnik is 'photo editing the easy way, on your browser'. Like Picasa it is a google product. There is a free and a premium version. The free stuff is all you need!
It has heaps of interactivity with other web 2.0 products and there are options with firefox and chrome browsers HERE
I took one photo...
Teachers using Picnik
Check out the suggested picnik activities link (a .pdf download) for some ideas. If you give the photo collages idea a try picnik talks you through the creating process with pop up instructions :-)
This could be something your students can play with (and often teach the teachers) for the e-learning challenge from the Central Otago Cluster?
It has heaps of interactivity with other web 2.0 products and there are options with firefox and chrome browsers HERE
I took one photo...
and made some adjustments to it in picnik with varying success but here you go....
Here I went into 'create' and 'effects' and then ran 'Lomo'ish' on the photo. Play around with the slider till you like it.
For this photo I played in 'edit'. I cropped the image (the lines when you are cropping are great for considering composition as you can set subjects in one of the 'thirds' which is more aesthetically pleasing from a design perspective) and went into exposure and played with the sliders, then also played in the colour section to lift the colours a bit. In create I then went to frames where I added a 'drop shadow' so the image looks a little like it's lifting out of the page.
When playing with black and white I love the 'holga' effect (it's in create under effects).
This image takes on a 'surreal' effect with the 'cross-process' action in create under effects also.
Here I cropped the image, played with exposure and colour then went to 'create' and the frames to add a border, again playing with the sliders, to make the white inner frame wider.
There are plenty of other creative options in Picnik that are free...rounded corners, 1960's, vignettes, soften...have a play with a 'so so' image of your own and see what masterpieces you can create.
Become a Picnik Master - ways to get started!
You can find out what's happening and access tutorials from the Picnik blog.
Teachers using Picnik
Check out the suggested picnik activities link (a .pdf download) for some ideas. If you give the photo collages idea a try picnik talks you through the creating process with pop up instructions :-)
This could be something your students can play with (and often teach the teachers) for the e-learning challenge from the Central Otago Cluster?
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Getting Started Webinar
Picasa is a photo management tool. This webinar guides you in the set up of picasa to organise your digital images.
Webinar for Beginners to Picasa
Webinar for Beginners to Picasa
Friday, October 1, 2010
Creating a Collage
Collages are fantastic on our class pages!
- Can have each photo separated with frames, or not.
- Can add text after saving your collage - a title or Learning Intention.
- Can choose from a variety of size and layout options - try a photo pile.
Improving your Photos
Check out these two tutorials for starters...
Sharpening your photos with Picasa
Four Clicks to Dramatically Improve your Photos
Sharpening your photos with Picasa
Four Clicks to Dramatically Improve your Photos
Sharp Digital Images
Taking a photo with a digital camera is turning infinite shades of colour into discrete samples of the original image and details smaller that the size of those discrete samples (pixels) can be lost - putting what you see into tiny little squares. Because of this generally all photos you take will benefit from being sharpened. Sharpening is the process of emphasizing tiny edge details, making the photo appear to be more sharply focused - giving it more detail.
Sharpening is best applied after any other post processing like changing saturation, or colour.
Sharpening is best applied after any other post processing like changing saturation, or colour.
Why Picasa?
- free from google
- simple post processing
- cool effects
- great collages of photos
- works on PC and Mac
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