Friday Tech Tip; (Murray Avenue Edition): Web-based Image Editing with picnik.com

Have kids working on a project where they need to not just use an image, but modify it in some way? 

Want them to develop a storyboard or comic strip?  Design a poster or brochure?  Craft a cover for a report? 

Photoshop is great, but expensive and memory intensive, and it’s not installed on every machine.  What to do?  Oh, what to do?

Have a picnik!    

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Here's the original image:



‘Seashell snail’ Photo courtesy of Cremo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cremo/526121622/sizes/s/in/photostream/(Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike(Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/



...and here's some of picnik's tools in action:

Crop

Pixelate

Get goofy

Adjust colors



Add text and word bubbles
(All Images based on ‘Seashell snail’, courtesy of Cremo)



 Enjoy!

Friday (Wednesday) Tech Tip for Teachers

Since we have a long weekend (wahoo) and don't have school on Thursday or Friday, I thought I'd post my tech tip today.  Today's tech tip will point you in the direction of an image creation site I default to often.  Big Huge Labs has many different photo editing options including, but not limited to:

• Magazine Cover Creation
• Create your very own magazine to feature:
• a famous person for a biography assignment
• a current events topic
• an animal research assignment
• just about anything...
• Movie Poster
• Fourth graders created movie posters last year to "advertise" our author visit with Debbie Dadey.
• Captioner
• Want to add speech or thought bubbles to a picture?  The captioner will let you do just that.
• Students can create a cartoon speech bubble to show character's conversation from a book
• Dialogue between two famous individuals from history
• Billboard
• Ever wanted to convey a BIG idea?  Why not do so on a billboard?
• Framer
• Put a fun frame around your photo.
• Trading Cards
• Again, great for a biography to sum up the traits of a character.
• Badge Maker
• If you need an official "press pass", this is the place to put it together.  Fun for students as part of a news team or any nametag-worthy event.
• And others that are just plain fun!

Check out Big Huge Labs today!