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 * Lesson Plan **

Introduction to Photoshop pp. 21 to 31 ||
 * **Subject: **Digital Media Design |||| **Topic: **Using Layers in Photoshop ||
 * **Period: **2 || **Date: 12 May 10 ** || **Year: **13 || **Lesson # ** ||
 * **Resources **


 * **Learning Outcomes: **
 * Students will develop an understanding of creating and managing complex Photoshop documents using Layers.
 * Students will be able to identify different uses of Layers in design: transforming, reordering, removing, blending and making the layers translucent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">In so doing students will be able to refresh their ideas of using colour to develop ideas for potential outcomes. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Students will have already looked at the tools used in Photoshop as well as the principles of design (aesthetics and function); this lesson could be a refresher at the beginning of a new project. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Expected prior knowledge: **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Time ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Content ** ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5 Wrap-up || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Introduction…

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Samples of work done

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Design is a human activity: how does Photoshop help us?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">The purpose of Design: who is your audiene?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">The power of Layers:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Exercise Part 1

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Recap/Inspiration for future lessons || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Recap: work done in the previous class

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">PowerPoint/artifacts of Photoshop products and how they are done. Exhibit or hand out different piece of broachers / flyers / other documents to each group and get them to discuss the plus and minus points about what each of those document makes them think of, associations, emotions etc. Then have one member of each group report back to the class

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">To show the class some Samples: students guess the audience

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Work-out a Photoshop document:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Creating Layers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Transforming Layers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Editing Layers

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Layers Exercises
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Part 1 pp.21
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Part 2 pp.23
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Part 3 & 4 pp.24 ||