Welcome to Our Teaching Kids Image Editing Homeschool Curriculum: Image Editing and Creation

Getting Started with Our Teaching Kids Image Editing Course

Image Creation and Editing is an image editing course which teaches the basics of editing and manipulating an image. Our teaching kids image editing course shows homeschool students the basics of how to use image editing software, as well as what kinds of effects can be applied to digital photographs, how various editing features work, and how to find just the right tool to bring out the best in every photograph.

Image Editing and Creation Course Outline

This image editing course uses the free software GIMP, which is similar to Adobe Photoshop but available online as a free download.

• Week One: Introduction
• Week Two: Dialog Boxes
• Week Three: Altering a Color Photo to Black and White or Sepia
• Week Four: Colors, Colors Everywhere!
• Week Five: More Enhancement Techniques, Part One
• Week Six: More Enhancement Techniques, Part Two
• Week Seven: Blurring Images, Part One
• Week Eight: Blurring Images, Part Two
• Week Nine: Bordering Images, Part One
• Week Ten: Bordering Images, Part Two
• Week Eleven: Bordering Images, Part Three
• Week Twelve: Bordering Images, Part Four
• Week Thirteen: Distort Effects, Part One
• Week Fourteen: Distort Effects, Part Two
• Week Fifteen: Distort Effects, Part Three
• Week Sixteen: Distort Effects, Part Four
• Week Seventeen: Distort Effects, Part Five
• Week Eighteen: Distort Effects, Part Six
• Week Nineteen: Distort Effects, Part Seven
• Week Twenty: Basic Text
• Week Twenty-One: Text Effects, Part One
• Week Twenty-Two: Text Effects, Part Two
• Week Twenty-Three: Text Effects, Part Three
• Week Twenty-Four: Working with Photo Frames
• Week Twenty-Five: Working with Brushes, Part One
• Week Twenty-Six: Working with Brushes, Part Two
• Week Twenty-Seven: Working with Patterns, Part One
• Week Twenty-Eight: Working with Patterns, Part Two
• Week Twenty-Nine: Isolating Odd Shapes
• Week Thirty: Cloning and Clipping Masks
• Week Thirty-One: Selective Colorization
• Week Thirty-Two: Artistic Filters, Part One
• Week Thirty-Three: Artistic Filters, Part Two
• Week Thirty-Four: Artistic Filters, Part Three
• Week Thirty-Five: Artistic Filters, Part Four
• Week Thirty-Six: Artistic Filters, Part Five

Teaching Kids Image Editing Course Sample

Image Editing Course Week 3: Altering a Color Photo to Black and White or Sepia

Now, it’s time to finally start using your GIMP! This week, you will be learning how to change a standard color photo to both black and white and sepia tones.

Do you remember the photo you took during the first lesson of this course? This is where you will begin to use it. If you do not have a photo of your own, you may use the one provided below.

Week 3 Supplement – Landscape Photo for Practice

You might find it helpful at this point to create a folder on your computer in which to put your work from this course if you have not already done so.

A note before we get started: when action sequences are given, they will be separated by arrows to show the proper order in a succinct way. Take, for example, the following:

“Click on ‘Filters,’ then in the sub-menu, click on ‘Artistic,’ then click on ‘Cubism’” would be written as “Filters>Artistic>Cubism.”

Ready? Let’s get started!

Altering to Black and White

Open up your GIMP.

Now, open your photo by going to the menu bar and clicking File>Open>your photo’s location on your computer>your photo’s name. It will now appear on your GIMP screen.