This is our catalog of courses. We will occasionally adjust the course listing to reflect the addition of new courses and the retirement of others.
Learn to use the most popular Photo Editing tools while making fun and creative projects. The skills mastered in the course will help students to successfully produce materials for their other courses both in middle school, high school, and on into college. Students will learn how to crop, layer, blend, touch-up, and filter images. This will also teach them to analyze images that they encounter, and question how they were created and manipulated.
Total classes: 7
Prerequisite: The ability to acquire the required software/applications (see Course Materials section). The student should have a general familiarity with computers – the ability to open applications, use menu-driven commands, and type using the keyboard – so that the emphasis of time can be placed on specific skills.
Suggested grade level: 7th to 12th
Suggested credit: ½ semester Computer Skills or Photo Editing
Description
Learn to use the most popular Photo Editing tools while making fun and creative projects. The skills mastered in the course will help students to successfully produce materials for their other courses both in middle school, high school, and on into college. Students will learn how to crop, layer, blend, touch-up, and filter images. This will also teach them to analyze images that they encounter, and question how they were created and manipulated.
Outline
Classes 1 and 2 – Introduction, Fixing and Enhancing Images
Classes 3 and 4 – Adding Shapes and Text, Editing
Classes 5 and 6 – Filters, Colors, Selections, Layers
Classes 7– Final Composition
Materials and Homework
Course Materials: Students will need to purchase Adobe Photoshop Premiere Elements, Student, and Teacher edition. It comes bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements (video editing) for the same price as purchasing it alone and can be found here.
Staples (still $79.99, but probably won’t last)
Amazon ($149.99)
Adobe ($149.99)
Homework: Each day, students can expect to spend between 15 to 60 minutes 5 days per week working on their compositions. Students will work each week towards creating a portfolio of pictures that demonstrate their touch-up skills. They can expect to create approximately 8 compositions a week, culminating in a portfolio with 24 or more pieces of their work. A weekly schedule will be provided.
Grading: Grades will be categorized as follows: learning experiences – 70%, assessments – 20%, participation – 10%. The projects and exams that you complete will serve as part of your assessment grade, everything else will count as a learning experience.
