Thursday, April 25, 2013

Magnet Project - Intro to Photoshop

I am super excited about our first Photoshop project.  It involves some of my favorite things:  QUOTES, FONTS, PHOTOSHOP and... MAGNETS! 

Have you ever seen an image online with a quote on top of a background or photo?
Check out my Pinterest board of quotes for some examples:


Your next project is to make your own cool quote image.  You can pick any quote you want, so long as it is appropriate for school, and can use any image you want, so long as it's appropriate for school.

A good place to go for backgrounds is http://photoshopbackgrounds.com/

It will take us most of today to set up your project.  Tomorrow we will learn some more Photoshop tricks, finalize our projects, print, and create our magnets. 

The goals for this activity are:
  • to set up a canvas in Photoshop
  • to add and manipulate a background in Photoshop
  • to add and manipulate a textbox in Photoshop
  • to learn about layers in Photoshop
  • to learn the difference between saving as a Photoshop file and as a JPEG
  • to make a cool magnet!
Here is my sample:

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