This presentation was given during a recent Adobe online course called Photo Imaging - a crash course for the classroom. It gives examples of ways I use Photoshop Elements in my year 6 classroom. I use Photoshop Elements to reach some of my Art and Literacy outcomes. The skills my students learn are transferable and relevant, since Adobe Photoshop is still the market leader in photographic manipulation.

1. Henrietta Miller
 Year 6 teacher
 http://www.classroomchronicles.net
 http://year6rc.edublogs.org

2. What Adobe products do I
use?
 Photoshop Elements
 Premiere Elements
 Why?
 Software skills that have long term use
 Creativity
 Design skills
 Student interest
 Task creation

3. Activity: Cutting out objects and placing
them on another background.
 Purpose: Backdrop for a
play, it was projected
onto the back wall of our
hall

4. Further backdrops showing student skills
in cutting out and resizing of simple
images as well as using layers.
All images were sourced using Creative
Commons image licensing rules.

5. Play backdrop with student drawn
object inserted into it

6. Literacy activity – Six word story

7. Literacy Activity – Juxtaposition

8. Literacy Activity – Juxtaposition

9. Skills based with purpose- title
pages

10. Art lesson : Picasso portraits, using
pastel drawings, Photoshop elements
and worldle as a refection.

12. Literacy Activity – Student written and
illustrated picture books

13. Literacy activity – Picture
book
 Created using
Microsoft
Word, own
illustrations and
Photoshop
elements.
backgrounds

14. Activity: Digi Kids Club.
 Lunchtime activity club offering
lessons on photography and movie
making.

15. Where do you start?
 With a simple task/activity
◦ That has a purpose
 Build up student skills
◦ Layers, tools, filters etc
 Use the Adobe Education Exchange to find
excellent lesson ideas
 Remember that there are usually 2 ways of
doing the same thing in Photoshop
 Don’t be afraid to admit your lack of
knowledge to your students
 Question your students, ask them to justify
why they chose a particular Photoshop tool.