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

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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.

Overview

36 weeks
Text based
Grades 6-12

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for note-taking and research.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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.

More About This Course

Welcome to Image Creation and Editing, our popular image editing course for homeschoolers. Our teaching kids image editing course teaches students how to use GIMP, a free image editing software. Photoshop is very similar to GIMP. Our image editing course includes plenty of opportunity to take your own photographs. If original images are unavailable, some are provided. (Brush up on your digital photography skills, check out Michele Peterson’s Photography course.) Are you ready? Let’s start!

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