Blog Creation and Selection Tools

January 8th, 2013

Here is a video for selection tool basics. If youtube is working, this may be an excellent way for you to experiment and learn at your own pace. If it is not, there is a picture based selection tool tutorial that is below the video.

1) Selection tools are used to cut out parts of an image. Select the lasso tool in the toolbar.

2) Next click and hold down on the mouse while you drag around the part of your image that you would like to cut out. The green arrows show the line I drew around the dogs head which will be the area I am cutting out.

3) Now when you release the mouse button it will show a crawling dashed line to show that the selection has been made.

4) Next select the move tool from the toolbar.

5) Now when you click and drag on your selection you can move it around. Next you may want to put this part of the picture into another file.

6) Select Copy from the "Edit" menu.

7) Create a new file or open another existing picture (Click here for instructions on creating a new file). And then select "Paste" from the "Edit" menu.

8) The dog's head has been successfully cut out and pasted into another picture.

Blog Creation

Here is a video for creating your own blog site to publish your artwork on (again, if youtube isn't working well, look at the image based tutorial below the video):

1. Go to blogger.com and click "Sign Up"

2. Fill out the following information. Enter your cell phone number for verification. Borrow a classmates cell phone if you need to; you can use one phone for multiple accounts. WRITE DOWN YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD AND PUT IT IN YOUR WALLET. If you lose your username and password I can't help you and you will lose your blog.

3. Then click "Next Step"

4. Click "Back to Blogger"

5. Click "Continue to Blogger"

6. Click "New Blog"

7. Chose a title for your blog; this can be anything school appropriate, something like "Brandt's Photos" is fine. Then choose your address. This must be 100% unique, like an email address, so you may need to add numbers at the end of it to make it unique. When it is unique a blue/white checkmark box will appear to the right. The class blog is online at "scp2013.blogspot.com". The ".blogspot.com" is added automatically. When you complete this step come and type your blog address into Mr. Brandt's computer. Then click "Create Blog"

8. Click "New Post"

9. Title your post something descriptive. Then type what you would like to say on your blog post.

10. Click the little picture icon to upload a picture.

11. Click "Choose Files"

12. Select a jpeg formatted picture and click "Choose"

13. Let the file upload and then click "Add Selected"

14. Click update to finish your post. If you don't do this your post will not be saved and published.

 15. Your blog is complete; it has text and pictures. SUCCESS!