CUFDIG303A – Prepare and produce photo images
How to use a Scanner
Watch the slideshow on the basics of how to use a scanner – http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-a-scanner.pageCd-storyboard,pageNum-2.html#slideshow
Your scanner and scanner software might look a bit different to the ones in the slideshow, but the basic ways of working will be the same.
Read the following information about using a scanner http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/using-a-scanner.
Activity: Take some old printed photos you have at home and scan them in to the computer. Save them in a file that is in order of the time they were taken. All images should be saved as .jpg (read about the difference between a .gif and a .jpg here)
Taking good digital photos
Read the following information on how to use a digital camera http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/using-a-digital-camera.
Refer to the resources in the unit ICPMM321C – Capture a digital image
Read the worksheet on Ass1.
Editing photo images
Go to the BBC Bitesize website here.
Reading the 4 pages on ‘Painting Packages’
Complete the online test, take a screenshot and save it to student Y drive.
Complete the following tasks:
Task 1 – Photoshoot
Description of task:
You are required to plan and carry out a photo shoot using digital cameras. The subject of your photos will be a friend or family member.
Resources needed
- A digital camera (either your own, from GNLC or in your mobile phone)
- Checklist
Assessment task instructions
You are required to:
- change the camera settings (flash on/off etc) to suit the kind of photo you want to take
- take between 6 – 10 photos of their subject. At least half need to be close-up shots
- ensure you have completed and ticked off all the items on the checklist.
- upload the images to a computer
Save the camera shots to your USB and bring hand them in to the VCAL Coordinator.
Task 2 – Photo mash-up
Description of task:
You will learn how to use a photo editing program to mash together two or more photos.
First, watch this video tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBJTmwYiX80&list=PL8E7A46C5601317C9
For example we are going to learn how we can change this image:
To this image:
Resources needed
- Digital photo of yourself chosen from the last activity
- Photo editing program GIMP (if you do not have GIMP on your computer, download the program here – It is free and legal to do this)
- Handout – How to mash up two or more images in GIMP
Assessment task instructions:
Students are required to:
- Open up their photo in GIMP
- Find an image they would like to show getting ‘zipped’ out of them
- Save the image in their folder
- Follow the handout to mash together two images
- Save the image with a new name
- Print one copy on the colour printer
Save the mashed-up image to your student Y drive and inform your trainer.
