Creating My Collage

I got the idea to create a Christmas type of photo that looked like my child and her doggie, so I found a picture of my Christmas tree in my living room after decorating it. Then I scanned a photo of my daughter that was a picture from my parents house. For my internet photo I took a picture of a dog from flickr and added that in the collage as our pet.

I thought that this was going to be more difficult at first, and perhaps being the reason for procrastinating on finding an idea or something interesting to do for this project. I am really involved with children, and this is something that I am so passionate about myself, so I really wanted to do something with my daughter or family. Christmas was one of the most recent times I used my camera, and I found a great pic of my tree. Next, I was able to scan in the photo of my daughter, and I could "cut" around it to outline only my daughter, then "shrink" her and add her in to look like she was in front of the tree. We have a dog at home, but she is a yellow lab. I decided it would be fun to add in a different kind of dog (also a pic was needed from the internet). So I found a picture of a puppy and again outlined it and put it in my original photo.

I have used photoshop a lot before but have not done a whole lot working with layers. This was more fun and a challenge to figure out how to get this working the way I wanted it to. I figured out the correct way to work on sizing and also to move things around to get them to look more realistic. This was a fun project, and easier than I thought it might have been. Photoshop is a fun program to work with.

Photoshop Elements

I really enjoy working with this program. I love being able to put one of your own photos up and finding little neat and cool things to do to your photo, like adding a bubble affect, and changing objects to different colors or sizes. I think it's fun to "cut out" an object in the photo and completely remove it or put it somewhere else. There are so many neat features that I like in this program, and I really like being able to undo all of your steps if you messed up or don't like something.

Web 2.0

I liked this website. I learned just form going to this website that there are so many tools and applications available on the web that I didn’t know were there. I thought that this website was easy to navigate through, and that I could find things easily that I was interested in. I found the functions of this website to be nice.

The purpose I thought of the website is to help show you where to find useful sites for things that interest you. Like I want to be a teacher, and I looked under the tag “fun”, and I found a website that was called “Game classroom”. This site has many useful tools like: free games for children, reading games, math games, listening games, homework help, etc. I also tried the tag “photo” and found many different things for using and creating new photos. I enjoy doing things with my own photos at home on my computer. So I found these things on this website to be fun and helpful in finding new things online that can help me with my hobbies. I tried the website “photo express” which was free downloadable stock photos. You created your own free account. I enjoyed looking at the photos to see what was there.

I found things to work pretty well on this website, and it was easy to navigate. I liked being able to choose a tag, and then see all the icons for each website. This gave me a little peak or idea about what that website could look like. I didn’t really see much that I felt was poorly working or didn’t work.

I think this website is for many ages. This can be a great tool for teachers so the can find fun websites for their students. Students can use this website to find things that interest them in their age groups, and use it for school and learning purposes. I think it could be good for elementary age students, as well as older kids to help them with their interests and hobbies they enjoy.

I liked this website. I learned just form going to this website that there are so many tools and applications available on the web that I didn’t know were there. I thought that this website was easy to navigate through, and that I could find things easily that I was interested in. I found the functions of this website to be nice.

The purpose I thought of the website is to help show you where to find useful sites for things that interest you. Like I want to be a teacher, and I looked under the tag “fun”, and I found a website that was called “Game classroom”. This site has many useful tools like: free games for children, reading games, math games, listening games, homework help, etc. I also tried the tag “photo” and found many different things for using and creating new photos. I enjoy doing things with my own photos at home on my computer. So I found these things on this website to be fun and helpful in finding new things online that can help me with my hobbies. I tried the website “photo express” which was free downloadable stock photos. You created your own free account. I enjoyed looking at the photos to see what was there.

I found things to work pretty well on this website, and it was easy to navigate. I liked being able to choose a tag, and then see all the icons for each website. This gave me a little peak or idea about what that website could look like. I didn’t really see much that I felt was poorly working or didn’t work.

I think this website is for many ages. This can be a great tool for teachers so the can find fun websites for their students. Students can use this website to find things that interest them in their age groups, and use it for school and learning purposes. I think it could be good for elementary age students, as well as older kids to help them with their interests and hobbies they enjoy.