Curriculum

5 Sections
23 Lessons
3 Weeks

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Intro to Photoshop
Let's learn the basics of Photoshop. You will do a project with me, and then, using the skills you learned, you will create your own Original Artwork that fits with the monthly theme or follows your own developed theme.
12
Mash-Ups using Photoshop
5
Uploading to your Padlet for peer Review
3
Create an origional piece, using the simple skills we just learned, based on the Story you wrote using the 3 images.
1
- 4.0
  How to pull an image out of a story
Reflection
2
- 5.0
  Reflection questions are in Google Classroom
- 5.1
  How to upload your .png images to Google Classroom. We will make our portfolios next month.

Explore Photoshop as you Create your Own Galaxy

This lesson will introduce you to the Basics of Photoshop as you Create a Galaxy of your own.

In this video you will learn the basics of Photoshop as you create a Galaxy of your own.

Part one covers:

Opening a Letter Size document in Landscape orientation. Layers Elliptical Selections Holding Shift down to contain proportions to make a circle. Paint Bucket Color Picker Brush and Brush Options and exploration of the Filter menu.

I forgot to tell you to save as a .psd to the Adobe Cloud if you need to stop and come back to this project. We ssave this way until the end whe we save this way in addition to exporting as a .png.

Coming soon…

Part 2 covers: Adding Value to the circle shape to turn it into a shape 3d form. Free Transform to change size. Move tool and Ordering Layers for placement. Saving as a .PSD in the Adobe cloud.

Part 3 covers: Rings and Outer glow effects.

Part 4 covers: Stars and Galaxy Dust.