BTT Mid Term Project
Using Gimp, Microsoft Photo Story, and Powtoon!
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gimp
Gimp is a program mostly used for editing photo's using the internet. There are more buttons that you can use instead of just the box that will zoom in on things. There is actually a whole tool bar full of buttons that can change your photos. See below
Do you know what all these buttons can do?
If you do, feel free to skip!
But if you don't this will teach you exactly what each does
Rectangle Select Tool- Select a rectangular region
With this tool you can highlight the rectangular area that you would like to use
Elipse Select Tool- Select an elliptical region
With this tool you can highlight an oval shape area that you like to use
Free Select Tool- Select a hand-drawn region with free and polygonal segments
With this you can make hand-drawn lines with your mouse by making straight lines from point A to point B
Fuzzy Select Tool: Select a contiguous region on the basis of colour
This tool will take a suggested colour and will find every same colour in the same area and will highlight it
Select by Colour Tool: Select regions with similar colour
This tool will select every piece of a certain colour in the picture
Scissors Select Tool: Select shapes using intelligent edge fitting
This tool lets you make shapes with your mouse, you then can cut the shape out, add something into the shape or just change the shapes colour
Foreground Select Tool: Select a region containing forground objects
This tool changes the background darker and the selected object lighter
Paths Tool: Create and edit paths
This tool connects different shapes by just one long line that you can edit
Colour Picker Tool: Set colours from image pixels
This tool will select the colour you mouse clicks on so you can use the same colour for future use
Zoom Tool: Adjust the zoom level
This tool allows you to zoom in and out of your picture
Measure Tool: Measure distances and angles
This tool is self explanatory it simply measures length and angles of the photos
Move Tool: Move layers, selections, and other objects
The tool move your photo around so that if only a corner is needed you can get rid of the other 3
Alignment Tool: Align or arrange layers and other objects
This tool moves your picture around and layer things on top of eachother
Crop Tool: Remove edge areas from image or layer
Selects a part of a picture just to print by itself
Rotate Tool: Rotate the layer, selection, or path
This tool rotates the photos
Scale Tool: Scale the layer, selection, or path
This tool make the picture smaller or bigger, thinner or fatter
Shear Tool: Shear the layer, selection, or path
This tool will move your picture onto a slant but make it in a more unnoticeable way
Perspective Tool: Change perspective of the layer, selection or path
This tool moves your picture around to make it layer on top of each other from different perspectives
Flip Tool: Reverse the layer, selection or path horizontally or vertically
This tool flips the photo's to face a different direction, or to make it go upside down. Perhaps both together
Text Tool: Create or edit text layers
This tool allows you to add text
Bucket Fill Tool: Fill selected area with a colour or pattern
This tool allows you to add patterns or an enclosed area colour
Blend Tool: Fill selected area with a colour gradient
This tool allows you to blur colours together
Pencil Tool: Hard edge painting using a brush
This tool lets you draw on your pictures
Paintbrush Tool: Paint smooth strokes using a brush
This tool lets you "paint" with smooth and thick lines
Eraser Tool: Erase to background or transparency using a brush
This tool will erase any unwanted lines and mistakes that you want to get rid of
Airbrush Tool: Paint using a brush, with variable pressure
This tool allows you paint with different textures and amounts of pressure
Ink Tool: Calligraphy style painting
This tool allows you to fade what your "painting" better
Clone Tool: Selectively copy from an image or pattern, using a brush
This tool basically copies the image you have in front of you onto a different document
Healing Tool: Heal image irregularities
This tool makes the picture look better than it was orriginally
Perspective Clone Tool: Clone from an image source after applying a perspective trasformation
This tool changes your perspective of the item and saves it to another document
Blur/Sharpen Tool: Selective blurring or unblurring using a brush
This tool is self explanatory it simply blurs things together or unblurs them
Smudge Tool: Smudge selectively using as brush
This tool like while sketching shows smudging and blurs colours together
Dodge/Burn Tool: Selectively lighten or darken using brush
This tool darkens and lightens your picture
And Those Are All Of Them!
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Microsoft Photo Story
In Microsoft Photostory you have the option to have photos play in a slide show in decorative way
Here is an example of a photo story
PhotoStory3
You can edit the photos you add though!
This is How!
Do you see all the buttons at the bottom of the photo?
This is what they all do!
This is called CORRECT COLOUR LEVELS
It will change your colours from this...
To this! With one simple click
See how the colours are brighter?
This is called CORRECT RED EYE
It will change the eye from this...
To this! With one simple click
See how all the red is gone?
These are called ROTATE COUNTER CLOCKWISE & ROTATE CLOCKWISE
It will change it from this way
To this way! With one simple click
Did you just turn your head slightly?
This is the last one! It is called "EDIT"
There are 3 bars to choose from
Rotate and Crop
Auto Fix
Add effect
These are the choices of effects
This ones my favourite
And those are all the photo features for Microsoft Photo Story!
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powtoon
This is powtoon, with this website you can make cool slideshows for free! My favourite part is the animated people that express exactly what you want in a fun and entertaining way
Here is a slideshow showing you how to make a Powtoon
Tutorial
How to Add Sound & a Voiceover to Powtoon
ADDING SOUND
Step 1: Press this button at the top of your screen
Step 2: This box will appear
Step 3: Choose a type of music from this bar
Step 4: You can listen to the music to test if you like it, press add on the right.
Then you can choose whether to play it once or on a loop
Step 5: When you have chosen, press apply at the bottom right corner
Once you preview your Powtoon you will here the music
ADDING A VOICEOVER
Step 1: Press this button at the top of your screen
Step 2: This box will appear
Step 3: Press the red circle (record) and speak at the speed wanted
Press the square when finished
Step 4: When finished this box will come up wait for it to fill to 100%
Step 5: Press apply and it will play when you preview the Powtoon