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!