Doing+More+with+Digital+Photos

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=Introduction= I intend to cover a lot of tools in this workshop. Use the ones you wish. Ignore the others. By its very nature, this workshop will cover some things looked at in previous workshops, such as Posters in the Digital Age. My focus here will be on ideas for using digital photos with students. This is not the "Photshop" class from earlier years, though I will cover Photoshop for those of you that have access to it.

Also used in this workshop:
 * Creative Commons Search

=Edit & Enhance= These are programs and online applications you can use for image editing. Use these to "fix" and "optimize" your photos.

Photoshop.com
Photoshop.com This app is really impressive looking for a free online tool. What else would you expect from Adobe? The interface was clean and easy to navigate. It boasts most of the basic editing and enhancing tools from standard Ps and Ps Elements as well as some adjustment layer and filter tools. I love the crop tool grid, which allows one to crop with the rule of thirds in mind. The most exciting feature of Photoshop.com for me was the iPhone app, which allows me to use all of these tools on the go. The "Decorate" features provide some "layers-like" capability and offer myriad classroom uses for annotating student photos. I can imagine everything from storyboards to labeled scientific observations.

There were a few disappointments. When I went to upload my photos, I was given the exciting news that there was an Air App that would allow me to drag and drop photos into Photoshop.com. I downloaded it and installed it only to find that it wouldn't work due to a permissions error. Nothing ever gives me a permissions error. I have IT level access. Also, it was difficult to determine how to apply some tools without clicking finish and reloading your photo.
 * < Edu Version? ||< **NO** ||
 * < Blocked for students? ||< **NO** ||
 * < Use at home? ||< **YES** ||
 * < Questionable content? ||< **NO** ||
 * < App for that? ||< **YES** ||

Signing up
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Uploading photos
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Editing
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Pixer
Pixer is pretty simple and self-explanatory... really. I'm not going to add video tuts for pixer.

Adobe Photoshop
I'm not going to add a lot of resources here, as not everyone has access to this app. Also, I taught a whole workshop on it last summer.
 * ===Last Summer's Workshop===
 * ===Adobe.TV Tutorials===

=Photo Projects= These are programs and online applications you can use //do something// with your photos other than stick them in Word or Powerpoint.

VoiceThread
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Getting Started
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Big Huge Labs
Big Huge Labs: Helping you do cool stuff with your digital photos since 2005. :-) Have fun with your photos!


 * < Edu Version? ||< **YES** ||
 * < Blocked for students? ||< **NO** ||
 * < Use at home? ||< **YES** ||
 * < Questionable content? ||< **EDU** ||
 * < App for that? ||< **NO** ||

Sign-up
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Go Play.
It's pretty simple really...

Animoto
Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music. Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music, using them to generate a video similar to a trailer. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing a unique video every time. The site also claims that no two videos are ever the same. (Wikipedia)
 * < Edu Version? ||< **YES** ||
 * < Blocked for students? ||< **NO** ||
 * < Use at home? ||< **YES** ||
 * < Questionable content? ||< **EDU** ||
 * < App for That? ||< **YES** ||

Signing up...
for Animoto and AnimotoEDU: media type="custom" key="6499281" media type="custom" key="6499353"

Creating a Video
//From Various Sources// media type="custom" key="6523805" media type="custom" key="6523809" media type="custom" key="6523813"

Sample Animotos
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Animoto Help Files:

 * [|IMAGES: How do I upload images and video clips?]
 * [|MUSIC: How do I add music to my video?]

Glogster
It seems that I should mention Glogster, even though a lot of you already use it, and it's covered in the digital poster class. In fact you can go there to find out about signing up for Glogster EDU. media type="custom" key="6526383"

=Other Things you may want to check out...=

Blabberize
[|Blabberize]

Scrapblog
@http://www.scrapblog.com/

FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer

GIMP
link