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3 – Collage

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • Use image editing software to manipulate digital images
  • Discuss whether or not manipulating images is ‘easy’, and how the answer to that question affects us

📝 Starter Activity – Which of these images is real?

Can you tell which one of these pictures has been manipulated and which is real?

🥇 Level 1 – Image editing tasks

Download the setup file to see how to set Photoshop up, then download the Lighthouse worksheet to start using it properly.

Lighthouse image here

🥈/🥉 Level 2/3 – A choice

For Level 2 you need to complete two of the below Photoshop tasks, for Level 3 you need to complete all four.

The stars indicate the difficulty, ★ = Easy, ★★ = Medium, ★★★ = Hard. You can do the tasks in any order.

Upload your completed image to Teams, with the name of the task as the filename, when each task is complete.

Images here
owl.jpg
penguins.jpg
desert.jpg
ada.jpg
code.jpg
astronaut.jpg

📖 Reflection

You got a glimpse of how easy it is to use software to manipulate images.

The main reason why it’s so easy is that images are represented as sequences of digits.

To manipulate images is to perform arithmetic operations on these digits.

Different effects applied to sections of an image. It’s all arithmetic operations on the numbers that represent the image.

📝 Plenary Task

Name one positive effect that image manipulation has on our lives.

Name one negative effect that image manipulation this has on our lives.

Write your answers on the sticky notes given to you.

🏅 Level Up

🥇 Level 1

  • Upload your completed Level 1 – Image editing tasks image to the Teams assignment.

🥈 Level 2

  • Upload two images from the Level 2/3 – A choice task to the Teams assignment.

🥉 Level 3

  • Upload four images from the Level 2/3 – A choice task to the Teams assignment.

In this lesson, you…

  • Used image editing software to manipulate digital images
  • Discussed how image manipulation software is easily accessible by anyone, and how that affects us

Next lesson, you will…

  • Describe how sounds are represented as sequences of
    binary digits