Creating with ICT: Level 3

Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks
Create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/transformation for particular purposes.

Prior Learning

Students undertaking this activity had previously completed the task:
Image Ahoy! Drawing with Photoshop

Crazy Heads builds on the skills presented in this activity.

Introductory Activity

Students were given photos of a man’s head and a pill box.
[Activity from The complete Adobe Photoshop handbook 2, pp.32-35]

They were instructed in the following skills:

• Remove background.
• Crop a photo .
• Select a portion of an image using the marque tool.
• Select layers to resize.
• Manipulate images together in the correct proportions to combine the images.
• Use separate layers to add details to the resulting image, i.e. to indicate what the man might be thinking.
• Save a PSD file and know that this can be further edited.
• Save the completed image as a JPG file in web format and know that this will be optimised for web.

Task

Students used a standard school photograph of themselves to repeat the above steps and produce a similar image of themselves, indicating what they were thinking.

Example Task

More examples here [internal school link only]

Australian Curriculum – The Arts

• Media Arts – Year 3/4
  As an art form evolving in the twenty-first century, Media Arts enables students to use existing and emerging technologies as they explore imagery, text and sound and create meaning.
  • Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, including themselves, through settings ideas.
  • Construct realistic representations and then construct fictional versions of the same image.
    i.e. Use a photograph of themselves to devise a new representation of the image to communicate a message – what thoughts are in my head?
• Visual Arts – Year 3/4
  • Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks.
    i.e. Use Photoshop layers and tools to manipulate several images and combine them in a new format.

Australian Curriculum – Level 3 ICT Continuum 

Applying social & ethical protocols and practices when using ICT

• Recognise intellectual property
  • Acknowledge when they use digital products created by someone else, and start to indicate the source.
    i.e. acknowledge the source of the photograph of the man’s head and the concept of the activity.
• Identify the impacts of ICT in society
  • Recognise its potential positive and negative impacts [of ICTs] on their lives.
    i.e. Know that photographs can be manipulated and dramatically changed.

Creating with ICT

Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks

• Create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/transformation for particular purposes.
  i.e. Apply editing strategies to edit, alter and combine images to create a new idea.

Managing and operating ICT

• [Select and] use hardware and software
  • Develop skills in using Photoshop to edit and manipulate images using layers and Photoshop tools.
• Understand ICT Systems
  • Save and keep the master files in PSD format for future editing.
  • Save finished images for web, understanding the reason for a small files size for web presentation.

Acknowledgement

[Activity idea from The complete Adobe Photoshop handbook 2, pp.32-35]