1. The document provides instructions for a Year 9 Graphics Christmas project in Photoshop where students will create a reflective Christmas motif using tools like symmetry, rotation, layer duplication, and transforming. 2. Students are told to download and import festive images, cut out elements, and build up layers to create their motif using tools like duplicate, transform, and merge layers. 3. They are then asked to add text, export their project, and annotate what Photoshop tools they used and what went well or could be improved.

1. Christmas Reflective Motif
Year 9 Graphics

2. Christmas Reflective Motif
Year 9 Graphics
For this project you can
show off all your new
Photoshop skills learnt over
the last term. Today you will
use symmetry and rotation
to create a…
Christmas Reflective Motif
To do this you will need to do the following:
1 - search and download
festive images e.g. Christmas trees,
presents, candy canes, food etc (download
images to your named folder on in the
Graphics Drop Box (create a new folder titled
‘Christmas Motif)
2 - Create a new Photoshop A4 document
Save this as “Christmas Motif” into your new
folder
3 - Right click and open
your downloaded images with Photoshop
4 - Cut out
each element (using object selection tool or
polygonal lasso tool
- Use the move tool drag and drop the
selection into your new doc
5 - Build stage 1 of your motif
cntl + J = duplicate
cntl + T = transform
(rotate/flip/scale)

3. 6 - Merge Layers
Once you are happy with your initial arrangement
- hold shift to select all the layers
- right click merge layers
7 - Duplicate the merged layer
(ctrl + J)
8 - Transform the new layer
(ctrl + T)
rotate/filp/scale layer

4. 9 - Now you can repeat the
previous steps to create more
complex layers, add other
elements or a background
10 Using the type tool write
“Merry Christmas 2021”
11 - Save and export and drag
and drop into your assignment
PowerPoint
12 - Annotate with the Photoshop
tools you used and want went well
/ even better if