Photoshop

Our digital cameras can provide us with good quality pictures. Using Photoshop (Picnic, Photoshop Online or other programs), however, the quality of these photos can be improved even more to match one’s taste. With Photoshop programs details of the picture can be adjusted. Exposure, brightness, tones of photos can be regulated. Imperfections can be removed as well.  In one of my photos I eliminated red eyes using Photoshop Online.

Photoshop is a great tool if you know how to use it. In our last class we were working with downloaded Photoshop program. That program was very confusing for me as I was not familiar with that program. It was hard for me to make any changes. I chose two pictures: one with a sunflower and another one with a blue butterfly. I wanted to insert a butterfly on the flower. It took me a long time to do such a simple task. I am sure anyone can get better in editing photos with Photoshop by playing around with the tools offered. But at the beginning it is frustrating.

I created a picture with a butterfly on a sunflower and inserted a poem about this insect. I would use this picture in first grade to teach some reading strategies such as matching pictures to words (the picture of a butterfly can help students to read about it in a poem). Fluency is another skill could be taught with this picture. The poem with colorful pictures can encourage children to read which promotes fluency.