Creative Computer Use
What we did on 5th March.
We looked at www.qubewinterwarmers.blogspot.com and saw that all the lesson notes are posted there together with tasks you can try.
We returned to the image we were working on last week by opening photoshop (double click the icon) Choose File | Open and browse for the image file in the normal way.
When the image was open we noticed that all the layers we made the week before were present. This is because it was saved as a photoshop file with the extension .psd.
The last job to do was to add the text. We selected the text tool and clicked on to our picture. A new text layer appeared in our layers panel. We type Happy Easter. We then dragged our curser across the text to select it and changed the text size, colour and style with the text menu options at the top of your work panel.
Once we were happy with the text we put a line around it to emphasise it. We chose the Magic Wand Selection tool – made sure contiguous in the menu was ticked and clicked the magic wand tip on part of the text. This left selection ants marching around the edge of the text.
Because the text makes a special text layer it won’t accept graphics. We therefore made a new layer using the button in the layers panel and then applied a stroke (or line) to our selection edge (where the ants are marching). We chose Edit | Stroke selection – chose a line width and colour – clicked ok and the line appears around our text. Click select | Deselect to clear the selection ants.
That was our card finished.
We then discussed image size – Image | resize | Image Size
If you want to print the picture set the pixels per inch to 300
If the picture is for the web or email that will only be viewed on screen set the pixels per inch to 72.
We set our Easter card to 15cm width keeping the proportions restrained with a pixels per inch of 72. Clicked Ok – the screen image changes size – to make in fit the work panel again click View | Fit on Screen.
Because we were posting our images onto our blog we saved this image by clicking File | Save for Web. This launches some special software that flattens your picture and compresses it reducing the file size by a large margin. We clicked OK and saved this copy.
We then went back to qubewinterwarmers and signed in so that we could post our pictures to it.
