Adobe Digital Kids Club Lesson Submission-Sara Martin At a Glance

• Grade Level: 6-8 • Subjects: Technology • Skills addressed:

o Students understand working with the following Photoshop Elements features to create a Mother's Day collage: Importing pictures and combining them to illustrate collage Using the text tool Using layer styles and effects on text

• Time Needed: One class period • Materials:

o Photoshop Elements software and access to a computer and the Internet

• Time Needed: One class period to write poetry and one or two class periods in a computer lab to complete the publishing

• Materials: o Photoshop Elements software, access to a computer and the

Internet o Scanner, if baby pictures are brought from home to use

Lesson

• Title: Mother's Day Collage • Overview: Students create a Mother's Day collage, including a baby picture of themselves • Objectives

o Students will complete a Mother's Day collage as a possible Mother's Day gift.

• Background Information: o The lesson will go more quickly if students possess basic Photoshop

Elements skills. o Beginning lessons, specifically “Selection Tools”, "Layers and

Shapes”, and "Collages" also on this website, provide these basic skills.

• Instructions o From the Adobe Elements “Splash Screen” select “Start from

Scratch”

o Set up your canvas at the size you desire, this example will be 10 inches wide by 7.5 inches high:

o Gather a collection of digital pictures to use in your collage and open them in Elements: file/Browse Folders:

o Open the pictures you want to work with:

o Move the picture over to your working canvas that you want to use for

your background. Background layers can be moved by dragging them from the layers palette:

Draw from here To here

o Resize your picture as needed:

o Add other elements. This example uses the lasso tool and the feathering technique to move another daisy to the working canvas:

First, select the lasso tool

Second, trace around the object

Third, select Select/Feather

Fourth, adjust the feather radius of the feathering, usually 15 pixels is a goo place to start,you can always adjust if necessary

Last, Select the move tool and drag the featheobject to the working canvas

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o Add the baby picture using the same feathering techniques or try the magic wand if there is a large contrast between the babies face and the background:

Add to the selection, until you have most of the background selected

Select/Inverse when you use the magic wand, since what you have selected is actually the background, and you want the "opposite"

o Select as much as you can, you can always "erase away bits of remaining background with the eraser tool:

o Use the "zoom tool" and the "eraser tool" to remove additional background, as desired:

o Adjust the elements on each layer for the desired effect using the move tool:

o Add text using the text tool. Remember to select the color of the text from the swatch palette before you start typing:

o Apply "Styles and Effects" to the text:

o Apply "Warp Text" if desired:

o Move the warped text and add your name using the same steps as above:

o Your project is ready to print and frame for your special mom! Evaluation: See rubric pdf Student Examples: