Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Photoshop meets Typograms: MMS 6th Graders Learn Adobe Photoshop

For the past few years I have been begging (it wasn't pretty folks) for our school to get Photoshop into one of our computer labs. Photoshop is such an important tool for our kiddos with an array of possibilities. I am ecstatic to announce we now have 38 Photoshop programs installed in Tech Lab 27! 

I started the students with a quick lesson on the History of Typography (very interesting and cleverly created). From there the students were given a quick tutorial on Photoshop and the BIG concept of layers. The students created a typogram using a variety of font style, font color, and font shapes. The goal was to create an image using only text. Pretty cool, huh?