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Friday, April 17, 2015

Computers 8 - Shadows and Sunshine assignment

The next edit in our photo editing unit is called "Shadows and Sunshine."  8M started the project yesterday and 8L started today.  The focus on this assignment is finding a suitable photo to edit (high resolution, high quality photo that fits artistically and appropriately with the theme of the assignment), and including the quote "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." with emphasis on the words "shadows" and "sunshine."  We create the emphasis by changing the font, the font colour, and the size of the important words while finding an appropriate (less dramatic) font for the rest of the text.  You want to make sure that the supporting words are not written in an invasive or overly flashy font, as they can take away from the emphasis of the more important words.

Here are a few examples from the lessons with 8M and 8L for your reference.  Happy editing!

An edit I did with 8L to explain the assignment

A sample edit with 8L

The same photo but with the text on "shadows" duplicated, dragged slightly off the original text, and faded further to show shadowing on the word for emphasis

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