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Year 9 Computing – CD Cover and Photoshop Skills

To start with, add your images from the last lesson to your gallery.

PDF iconGallery task – to keep adding to

Combining images

Tree with overlain imagesOne of the key Photoshop skills is combining different images together. This often involves having to remove backgrounds from images as well.

PDF iconSlides from class

PDF iconOrder of work

Here are the key instructions for this.

PDF iconCombining images on a CD cover

PDF iconSingle slide summary on combining

You need four images for this.

Image iconBackground image

Image iconDucks image – you might already have a handy duck cut out that you can reuse

Image iconBoat image

Image iconHelicopter image

Key Skills

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PDF iconWorking with text

Sourcing your own images

This is tricky.

Not every image you find on the web will open in Photoshop. And lots of them will be really poor quality.

Use Unsplash to source your own images. These will all work and are really high quality images. They're also totally copyright free, which is a bonus.

You can go back to lesson 4 if you need to.