Using Graphic Applications:
Adobe Photoshop

Summary of Project

The goal of this unit is to teach students how to understand how to use graphic applications and the concepts of how graphic applications work. Students will learn specifically how to use Adobe Photoshop and how to integrate images that they create into their web pages.

List of Assignments

  1. Creating a Banner for Your Website - Lesson 1

  2. Exploration of Tools - Continued Work on Banner - Lesson 2

  3. Continued Experimentation and Reinforcement of Using Tools - Lesson 3

  4. Using the Lasso Tool and Inserting Lassoed Images into New Layers - Lesson 4

  5. Finish a version of Your Banner - Adding Banner to Top of Web Home Page - Lesson 5

  6. Learning About Filters - Applying Filters to Photos - Lesson 6


  7. Create a new Adobe Photoshop File and "Paint" a painting of what you would imagine an Alien Planet landscape would look like. - Lesson 7
    Alien Planet Landscape - Details for Assignment

  8. Create a New Adobe Photoshop file that is a RECREATION of one of Mr. Lamothe's Photographs. Click below to see the Photograph choices that you will be recreating. - Lesson 8
    Graphic Re-creation of one of Mr. L's Photographs.
    Details for this assignment

  9. Create a new Adobe Photoshop File and "Paint" a Painting of the Still Life that you see in the room. Lesson 9
    Still Life of Flowers, Cow, Flamingo, Duck, etc.


  10. Now you will be creating a Links Page for all your Graphic Creations. You will do this by creating a Thumbnail page using Dreamweaver. Open Dreamweaver and Create a new page, save it in your named directory on your H drive and call it something like mygraphic_links_page.htm. See Link Below for Details on how to create the thumbnails page. Lesson 10
    Creating Thumbnails

Home: Using Graphic Applications - Adobe Photoshop
Creating a Banner for Your Website - Lesson 1 Exploration of Tools - Continued Work on Banner - Lesson 2
 Continued Experimentation and Reinforcement of Using Tools - Lesson 3
Using the Lasso Tool and Inserting Lassoed Images into New Layers - Lesson 4
Finish a version of Your Banner - Adding Banner to Top of Web Home Page - Lesson 5
Learning About Filters - Applying Filters to Photos - Lesson 6
Alien Landscape - Details for Assignment
Graphic Re-creation of one of Mr. L's Photographs. Details for this assignment
Still Life of Flowers, Cow, Flamingo, Duck, etc.
Creating Thumbnails
Slide Show - Power Point
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