So, these are the teams I came up with for the various Procedure projects. I tried to pair people up so that we'd have an equal amount of experience on each team. I also decided to assign each team one more complex procedure and a few simple ones.

Nate & Doran-Filters, Changing Colors, Red Eye Reduction, image resizing, rotate an image.

James & Christine-Layers, Resizing/Reshaping Brush tool, magnify image, image transformation.

Ryan & Mia-Animation, Saving a File/Final Product, Adding text, fixing mistakes (erase & undo-combine), canvas manipulation.

I think these teams should work out well, and I hope that although we are working in seperate teams, we all learn a little something about each topic we're covering in our procedures.

This is a revised list of procedures that I’ve put together based on our postings/discussions in the past week. I’m not sure if we want to keep things organized this way, but for the sake of posting, I’m going to separate the basic procedures from the more advanced ones.

Basic/Simple Tasks:
-How to Import/Export an Image
-How to cut/copy/paste
-How to undo mistakes
-How to select an image
-How to distort
-How to erase work
-How to change color
-How to rotate/resize an image
-How to crop an image
-How to magnify and zoom
-How to add text
-How to save a file
-How to change file formats (specifically from project to final product)

Advanced Tasks:
-How to resize and reshape your brush
-How to use the lasso tool
-How to adjust hue & saturation of an image
- Image morphing/animation

What are challenging areas for users that our clients will need to make use of? This is the question I asked myself when I came up with my list of ideas for our Procedures. This list will obviously expand and morph itself over time as we come across new areas of interest. In my list of ideas, I have put an * next to the ideas that I took straight from my Dr. Stiller Visit class notes as things she said her students have had particular issues with in the past.

Please add, challenge or comment on anything on here.

Topics to be covered:
-Image morphing/animation*
-How to use Layers*
-How to select an item*
-How to Change file formats (specifically from a project to a final product)*
-How to rotate an image.
-How to resize an image.
-How to crop an image.
-How to distort an image.
-How to add text to an image.
-How to undo something/convert image back to original format.
-How to post a picture/video online (using a blog?)

Before I post my rough list of procedures, I just wanted to list a few things that I noted from class that I feel will help us begin to mold more concrete ideas about procedures. If you have anything you’d like to add, be my guest.

-Tuesday’s Procedure Assignment for Rotating/Resizing a picture (posted on Ryan’s Blog).
What worked: The use of ‘the imperative mode’ or commanding what to do. (Note: The sections on open/save file selections are good examples of this. Both begin with a verb, thus telling your audience what they’re supposed to be doing.
Improvements:
Instead of using “Step 1, Step 2, Step 3” use Roman Numerals.

Other Stuff: Whether we’re writing procedures or our tutorials, we will really have to incorporate all of our “jobs” together and keep things consistent.

Also, as Nate has mentioned in his blog, I feel we should talk more about how or when we can collaborate on this project outside of class. I think that we should be at least e-mailing one another on a daily basis or have a daily “conversation starter” on our blogs where we would all respond to one posting while adding our own content to keep the project fresh in our minds.

Overall I think things are going well so far, I just don’t want our Doc Plan (or anything else) to catch up to us before we’re ready for it.

Below I have posted the revised version of our Photoshop Elements tutorial for Rotating and Resizing an image. I didn't make many changes because I felt that things were direct and clear, the screen shots were great too!

The only change I really made was stating that you have to have Adobe Photoshop Elements open. I know this is obivous but, someone might forget. That was really the only thing I could think of to add to what had alread been done.

We rock.
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Group Project

Group Project
Let's write a group tutorial using this wiki
Group members
Drafts
First PE Tutorial
Overview
Congratulations!

Let's write a group tutorial using this wiki

I would like to have everyone pitch in in creating an elaborative OR minimalist (or some combination) tutorial on changing the size and orientation of a digital photograph in PE.

Group members

Mia Coppola blog address
Doran Dal PRADA blog address
Nate Lord blog address
Christine Messina Blogging
Ryan Morash blog address
James Smith blog address

Drafts

Keep your drafts here so you can refer to earlier versions.
First PE Tutorial

Overview

Reshaping and resizing photos is a basic skill, and key to successful photo editing. Here are a few easy steps to help you learn these skills using Adobe Photoshop Elements: (Christine a little. Modified by James. Modified by Mia.)
Importing the 'banjo' Image:
Open Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Click 'File' at the top of your window
Select 'Open'
In your 'M' drive find the file called 'banjo' and select it
Click 'Open'
(Nate)
*Once open your screen should look like this
(Nate)

Rotating the Image
Click 'Image' at the top of your window
Select 'Rotate'
Select '90 degrees Left'
(Nate)

Resizing the Image
(Nate)

Click 'Image' at the top of your window
Select 'Resize'
Select 'Image Size'
In the dialog box, change the width to 400 pixels and the height to 400 pixels
Click 'OK'

Changing the Canvas Size
Click 'Image' at the top of your window
Select 'Resize'
Select 'Canvas Size'
In the dialog box, change the width to 8 inches and the height to 8 inches
Click 'OK'
Reshaping the Image
Click 'Image' at the top of your window
Select 'Transform'
Select 'Skew'
Grab points will appear around the 'banjos' image: click and drag one of them to skew the image
To Save the Image
Click 'File' at the top of your window
Select 'Save As'
Click the drop down arrow next to 'Format' and select 'JPEG'
Save the image as 'banjos2' in your M-drive

Congratulations!

Now that you know how to import, rotate, resize, reshape, and save this banjo image, you may want to experiment with your own creations. Try designing an image in Photoshop Expressions using the tools you learned today You can use your new image in a variety of circumstances, such as in a school project, on your website, or in a brochure. If you get stuck and need help, don't worry -- just to return to the en4090: ATC tutorials for Photoshop Expressions. (Christine)

Just, testing that this will work.

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