Hello all, As some of you might remember from a few years back (yes its been a while since i was realy active) i am a teacher at a school somewhere in Europe. This year ill start developing a lesson program for kids (age 12 - 15) to start with the basics of photoshop. I will use this year to make some test lessons to see what the kids know already and how fast they learn specific actions so i can make a complete lesson program next year. Part 1. This part will be to learn the function of: - Layers - Colors - Shapes - Pen tool - Text tool This lesson will be focussed around the vectorish images you can create with PS. This will be the base lesson where the students will learn the basics of PS. Example: http://bratzer.deviantart.com/art/The-hear...-deer-101297894 Part 2. - Layers - Adjustment layers - Shapes - Color effects - Text effects - Lasso tool - Photo retouch. - Cut, paste, transfor, rotate etc etc Bit more advanced lessons where the studens will adjust a photograph from themselves. Basic idea is to have a photograph infront of a white wall taken, and they will ad vectorish images and things behind the body. Will have to look for an example first. Part 3. Edit of close up photo using different correction techniques like clone stamp tool and patch tool. Rest of the lessons will have to be made. Current ideas are: - Website layout. - Advertising program (postes, banners) Any ideas, suggestions or hints are more then welcome. Thanks, Bratzer
Some filters are necessary: gaussian and lens blur, unsharp mask, high pass filter. Don't leave out different options for the brush tool, as well as healing brush, clone stamp, and burn & dodge tools. Doesn't take long to teach about those, but it's nice to know them . Probably just throw those in before the pen tool or something like that. I don't know. Other than that, I don't know. Maybe just a small segment on photo retouching, if you want. Can't really say anything else, I only use PS for photos and the occasional doodle.
Thanks, will need to write a new module from those subjects i think. Something with a close up photo from their face and edit it from there.
Definitely give them time with both small (signature) and large artwork. As Photoshop is mainly a photo-editing program, you may want to bring that into play as well.
I think it'd be really cool if you showed them how to make a signature.. That equals more fresh blood for us at GR
Firstly, what will be the span time in days or hours of each Part that you have listed up there. Since, you cannot cover every single bit in one class time of one day. You'd require much more than that since you can go on about text tool and pen tool for about 50 minutes and still keep the class in session with eagerness to learn furthermore. Second, here are some things that you can include in your lesson plans: Filters: Gaussian Blur Lens Blur Radial Blur Cutout Spatter Displace Wave Noise Clouds Lens Flare Lighting Effects Sharpen -- Also best side filter would be Edit - Fade Sharpen (as that can be used for almost every command in Photoshop) Texture Tools: Magic Wand Magic Eraser Slice Tool (if you want to do a lesson for Web Design, it will be to your advantage to teach them this tool as they both go hand in hand) Clone Stamp Healing Brush Dodge Tool Blur Tool Eyedropper..should be one of the first tools in the Colours Section. These are just some Tools and Filters that I thought needed to be covered in your lessons. Other than that, if you have more time for lessons, I would go ahead and in the finishing part of the class place in Topaz Vivacity, Topaz Adjust, Topaz DeNoise, and Topaz Sharpen. These are great for a Photo retouch. Furthermore, for a project have them make something like a Large Art piece of their own. Off course you will need to show them what it means, when you decide to do this lesson show them places like Deviant Art which is an International Site and has plenty of Tutorials (need to tell them that) and Art Pieces that they can look on for further inspiration. If you have time maybe squeeze in a lesson or two for something like... Conceptual art which is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Cover art, the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book, magazine, comic book, product package, video game, DVD, CD, videotape, or esp. album art. Illustration the original imagery that was used as a basis for illustration. Photomask, an opaque plate with holes or transparencies that allow light to shine through in a defined pattern, commonly used in photolithography Hope I helped in a way or two. Oh and Welcome back Old Bud Hope you still remember moi... :mellow: Thanks for reading, Zain.
Signatures is out of the question for now. I would to train them the tools to do something, not too much specific infomation. If all goes well, they will be able to make those things themselves when they are ready with the programm. When it comes to the time span, They will have 1 lesson a week over a period of 2 years. This is a test period to see what goes on, how fast they learn and what needs to be corrected and added. Those filters is something i might ad at a later stage, most important (i think) is to let them get used with the layers, brushes, shapes, colors, pen and adjustment layers. They need to have a base before we can get deeper into other materials Thanks for the feedback And yes i remember you
It's more the age aspect I was concerned about, not the skill with photoshop. Although a wave of "noobs" asking for help would also be awful.
The Time Span is good. It gives a lot of time over the 90 Weeks that they have with you, saying that there is Summer and Winter and small holidays in the middle. It took me about the same amount of time to familiarize myself with PS. If you want to start out with the basics of Photoshop (CS CS2 CS3 or CS4) the best way to start is when making a new document and going through all the stages of RGB Colour, Grayscale, Bitmap, Lab Colour, CMYK Colour and most importantly the DPI (dots per inch) selection. Pretty much all of the 99% of the time these start ups make the most difference in anything that you do further in Photoshop. Give them a minute lecture or 30 seconds on what each does and how each can be used and stuff. Most 12 - 15 year olds that go to my brother's High School barely know what they mean ... As for Signatures and Large Art, I would say that do not add that to your course program at all for now. In the end, if you feel like they / your students have gotten the concept behind Photoshop then maybe introduce this to them but if it is Beginning Photoshop I wouldn't go that far. It will be hectic for them at the start anyways, so don't overpower their tenie wenie brains with the gibberish. Except in the end of the whole class show them examples on what you can do when you get much more into Photoshop and the types of things you can create with the skills you have learned in this class, as Pen tool and Vectors, Brushing and other sort of tools and filters. If you need any further help do contact me on GR or on MSN (you should have it if not then [email protected]) and I'll be glad to help you start out with this class. I know from experience that this will be fun but in the beginning you will be running around the class around. (Fun too though just don't trip over backpacks) I've taught class of 9th and 10th Graders at the High School that I went to and it was fun. I taught them about Dreamweaver CS2, Photoshop CS2, Auto-Cad (not that much since I don't know that much myself), and for fun we went ahead and actually constructed computers which was the last project. Just to show how the three programs can help you create something from scratch, though I gave them most of the parts. For a second there I thought you forgot me :lol: Holla at me Anytime! Zain :wub:
