Digital Photography Basics: Be Photo Friendly

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Digital Photography BasicsBe Photo Friendly

• Using a Sony DSC-F717 digital camera to capture
  images and PhotoShop to edit photographs, you can
  make pictures look how you want them to be.
• Elizabeth K. McMurphy
• ETEC 562 Spring 2005

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Taking a photograph

• Be sure your camera is charged!
• Turn it on, remove the lens cap.
• Easiest use set to Automatic, not Manual (unless
  familiar with aperture and shutter speed).
• Take some photographs.
• Be creative!

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Uploading your images

• Before first time, Install PIXELA Image software
  (comes with camera).
• Connect the USB cable to the CPU and the camera.
• Camera viewfinder will display USB MODE message
  on blue screen
• Once complete, pick a photo for editing.

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Editing and Manipulating in PhotoShop

• Crop and Resize
• Image Adjustments
• Color Balance
• Brightness Contrast
• Hue Saturation
• TIPS-
• Always Use Layers.
• You can use stock photos.

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The Photoshop Tools Window(broken into pieces)
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Editing and Manipulating in PhotoShop Continued

• Helpful Tools for making selections
• Marquee Tool
• Lasso Tool
• Magic Wand Tool
• Helpful Tools for making repairs
• Healing Brush Tool
• Cloning Stamp Tool

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Project Ideas

• Social Studies/Art History
• Study a country, its famous people and historical
  figures, memorable landmarks, and culture.
• Create a series of artistic photo post cards
  using the knowledge gained you must be placed in
  the pictures and write messages home sharing
  information about the place visited.

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Project Ideas Continued

• Reading/ELA
• Read and analyze a novel.
• After seeing the story in your mind, create a
  book cover for it.
• Take pictures of your friends and family as the
  characters.
• Write a review of the book for the back cover.
• Pay special attention to placement of title and
  authors name.

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Project Ideas Continued

• Theatre Arts
• Create posters for school plays.
• Include Appropriate
• Setting for background,
• Characters in wardrobe,
• Type face for text,
• And other necessary information to advertise the
  show.

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Project Ideas Continued

• Music
• Research a composer or musician.
• Make a photo collageUse following
• Found photographs of the person,
• Scanned in pages of their sheet music,
• Images of places and things imagined while
  listening to the music,
• Creative Text
• the name, dates of life span, etc.

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Helpful Resources

• www.planetphotoshop.com
• www.photoshopcafe.com
• screamdesign.daz3d.com
• www.good-tutorials.com
• Photoshop 7 Bible By Deke McClelland
• Photoshop 7 for Dummies By Barbara Obermeier

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References

• www.amazon.com
• www.adobe.com

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Interesting Manipulated Photo