Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Seventh Graders Learning Photoshop CS5



As Seventh Graders, we have been exploring the world of Marketing and Photoshopping Images in Digital Thinking Ι. We have looked at advertisements and websites that show how they make food look so delicious on TV, but not very good the store. We were completely blown away by the things they put in a basic meal. Ever thought about why on commercials with ice cream, the ice never melts or has any sign of it melting? Well we know why and it definitely doesn’t make your mouth water about wanting to eat ice cream. Here is the list of the ingredients: Shortening/Margarine, Powdered Sugar, Corn Syrup, Vanilla Beans Strawberry jam, cocoa and other colorings and flavorings. To add to that, you can put this type of ice cream in a plastic bag for months and it wouldn’t change its looks. Yuck! Moving away from that thought, let us explain our Photoshop projects.


 

The Projects we are working on are fun and challenging. The first project we had involved us cutting ourselves out of one picture and copying it onto another picture. They turned out pretty awesome. We took approximately six classes to complete this. We basically pasted ourselves into somewhere extraordinary that we wanted to go to or something we always longed to do. We tried to make it as real-looking as possible. For example, we put ourselves on a beautiful beach in Hawaii. It was really dreamy to pretend to be on a nice beach in the midst of the freezing cold winter. Some of our other classmates were placed on trampolines, walking down fashion runways, and even on the moon!
Now we are in the process of working on another Photoshop project. This one is being completed in pairs because it requires more work. We are using to Photoshop to create something archival from the pre-1980s. It’s slowly moving along, every pair working out all the study halls we have together to finish it as quickly as possible. Some partners have chosen to do old books, old music, etc. For example, Sakina’s partner and she are doing old animated cartoons and we are going to Photoshop all the prehistoric cartoons, like The Jetsons, and Popeye the Sailor, into a Color bar based on the year in which it was originally produced. We can’t wait to see how it all turns out!  


Text and top photos by Sakinah R. and Paige S. (Class of 2016)
Photoshop projects by the Seventh Grade Digital Thinking II students





24 comments:

  1. I loved using Photoshop! It was really cool to finally understand how you can "Photoshop" something. I had so much fun in this unit!

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  2. It was really cool learning how to use a cool program like Photoshop! We all made really cool final projects!

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  3. I think this was the best(and funnest) unit of our Digital Thinking classes. We were fortunate enough to do two projects. For my first project, I photoshoped myself on a sliding board. It was challenging to get in the right "position" for the picture. Trying to get the lighting right was also really hard. My second project was about the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. You can see the picture here : http://bit.ly/jK5BVX I am looking forward to more fun and exciting projects this year!

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  4. Good job 7th grade! The photos look very real!

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  5. Sakinah and Paige, this is a great blog!! the seventh graders did a great job on this project!! I turned out really well

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  7. These assignments were new this year, and I was so impressed by how quickly you girls learned Photoshop. Also, your creativity and ability to research the archival material is awesome. I can't wait to see your final 'Voices from Young Women' videos!

    (Put another hash mark in the "Non-7th Grade" Comment column! :)

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  8. This project was my favorite! I had such a fun time doing it, and every body's project turned out well!
    -Sophie

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  9. This project was difficult but it was really fun! I hope we do something like this next year! Everyone's was so unique and cool :)

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  10. Nice job...eat lots of ice cream now!

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  11. What a cool project it sounds like that you girls are currently working on! It's amazing what you can do in photoshop. I absolutely adored the photos of where you put your photo of yourself in a different location. The white house photo and the underwater one are quite cool. Good work 7th grade!

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  12. What a cool project it sounds like that you girls are currently working on! It's amazing what you can do in photoshop. I absolutely adored the photos of where you put your photo of yourself in a different location. The white house photo and the underwater one are quite cool. Good work 7th grade!

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  13. Great blog, great class, great work!!

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  14. Hi, This is Ms. Madden. I work with high school students in New Orleans and used to work with Ms. Gross. I have a Photo Shop challenge for the class that I would love to see. Can you take a slice of bacon and Ms. Gross and Photo Shop them so that her body is the slice of bacon with her face on it?
    She loves bacon and I think this would be very funny.

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  15. Do you take photoshop requests? I'd like a picture of me on the moon.
    In a Starbucks.

    Excellent work, by the way.

    Todd Montgomery

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  16. Prehistoric cartoons! Haha, great job! It is interesting to learn how easily our eyes can be fooled :)

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  17. I am a GFS grad (from the olden days of the '90s). The idea of a digital thinking class where you get to learn cool stuff in Photoshop is terrific! This level of technology was unprecedented in my day and you guys are so lucky to be learning all this stuff early. I use Photoshop in my daily life as an editor, so it really does have useful applications (although photoshopping yourself into other pics is fun, too!)

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  18. very impressive! I like the cartoons through the ages and Beatlemania

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  19. I love the creativity used in all of the compositions! There is a lot of talent in these projects. Can't wait to see what is next. How lucky you all are to be learning such a great and useful skill.

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  20. Excellent! Sounds like a fun class!

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  21. Great project! And I love that stuff about the "ice cream" ads. When I was in junior high (30 years ago!) I heard that they use elmer's glue instead of milk in cereal bowl pictures because milk photographs as too blue-ish and see-through. I think of that almost every time I have cereal for breakfast -- and now I am going to think of this shortening concoction every time I eat ice cream! It won't dissuade me though. Hope you enjoy yours -- you've earned it! - Bambi

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  22. So much of advertising is illusion that it's difficult to know what a product really will be like. The shortening for ice cream for example (yuck!) Good luck with the project. It sounds like a lot of fun!
    Nancy

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  23. Great job! Looks like fun and I am happy the 7th grade had fun doing this

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  24. I hhad a great time doing this project! My partner and I did Madonna! It was so much fun and we both felt awesome onc we finished and saw our creation!
    Sarah S

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