Creating Digital Sourcebooks: 8VA

Dear Grade 8s,

Some of you asked about creating online sourcebooks or working on your computer. You may work digitally but then you need to upload your sourcebook onto the Google cloud so that your teacher can access it from her computer.


Indian Drive by Shena Macdonald

Google Drive is a wonderful place to store and generate online content.

Link to PPT tutorial on signing in to Google Drive





You can add your work to the cloud by uploading existing content from your computer onto Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on Uploading Presentations

Remember that the file size needs to be small so that content loads faster online. One way to reduce file size is to compress images or break a large powerpoint into smaller sections.

 Link to Tutorial on compressing images on Powerpoint 

You can also generate content online by creating new documents in Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on creating Google Presentations

 Link to Tutorial on adding content to Google Presentations

The next step is sharing Google Drive content with your teacher.

Link to Tutorial on sharing settings on Google Presentations

Adobe Bridge Screen shots

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps9_browser/bridge_kb_1.htm

Link to Google PPT tutorial on using Screenshots in Adobe Bridge

Using Photoshop filter to improve your drawing....links to Tutorials on Cut Out/ Halftone and Gaussian Blur

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5274

Remember that pixlr editor is similar to Photoshop and is available for free online at pixlr.com.  You can open your photos in pixlr from your Picasa Web/Google + album.

link to PPT on how to use the Cut out filter on adobe Photoshop

Link using the Halftone filter on Pixlr.com to create poster effect


Using Gaussian Blur to Add Depth of Field to a Photograph


http://www.cgways.com/photoshop/photoshop-color-improvements-to-gaussian-blur


Link to PPT on how to use Guassian blur on Photoshop