Photoshop Tutorial 1


Minnesota K-3 Visual Art Standards Used in This Lesson:

  • 1. Identify the elements of visual art including Color, line, shape, Form, Value, texture and space.

  • 2. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.

  • 3. Identify the characteristics of visual artworks from a variety of cultures including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 4. Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

  • 5. Share and describe a personal artwork and reflect on a presentation based on the feedback of others.

  • 6. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a variety of works of visual art.

    • Additional Tie-ins

  • Technology
  • Multimedia
  • Computer Mouse control
  • Shading and Highlights

    • Atwater Elementary students will learn the basics of the industry-standard photo editing tool, Adobe Photoshop, in a few tutorial lessons throughout the school year.

    Adobe, makers of Photoshop and Illustrator, made their CS2 software a free download enabling ACGC to utilize it in our older computer labs. This is a BIG deal because, even at educational licensing prices, it would have cost over $250 per seat for Photoshop alone. Multiply that by the 20+ computers we have in just one of our labs... You get the idea.

    Depending on our time schedule, a quick introduction to painting with Photoshop and Photo editing may be presented at the start of this lesson.

    Students will learn Photoshop basics by following along on their computers while the teacher demonstrates how to use some of Photoshop's tools. They will then be given time to make their own creation using Photoshop.

    Students in Lab 3 will save their work in the Art folder contained in the "Lab" file, using the following convention: Grade number and name (ie 2tommy)

    (Click the image below for a gallery of student work)
    The classroom lessons pretty much follow my tutorials below which were made for students who were absent or who want to follow along at home.

  • 1 Selections and Brushes
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  • 2 Constraining Selections and Fill Colors
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  • 3 Lasso and Move tools
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  • 4 Magic Wand
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  • 5 Quickmask Mode to Modify Selections and Undo.
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  • 6 Transform and Layers
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  • 7 Practical Quickmask and Transformations
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