Unit 5 PDA 304  :  prepared by Ben Matthews  :  October 23 and 25, 2000 | February 27, March 1, 2001  :  NCHS room 161

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Now is your chance to practice!  Complete some of the following tasks to increase your knowledge and understanding of basic graphics . . . Choose 3 of the following 9 activities to complete for your project.  Youmay do more than three if you would like to practice.  Choose activities that are interesting to you and meet your needs.  Open the WORD document with the link below.  Delete the 6 activities you are not going to do.  Put your name and PDA 304 at the top along with the date.  Finished product go underneath each activity description.  If you finish today before you leave you can print it here and hand it to me.  If not, you can save your document and email it to yourself to finish at your building.  You may email me your finished product if you prefer - you might want to email it to me and yourself anyway.  Finished products should be in Word document format and you should save the file as "lastname304" (with your last name in all lower case letters and no spaces).
  1. Take a picture on a digital camera. Open the picture in Microsoft PhotoEditor. Resize the image to 320x240 pixels. Then change the resolution to 72 pixels per inch. Clean up the image by using the auto balance feature. Then paste the picture into this document below.
  2. Find a piece of clipart somewhere on the Internet. You can go to microsoft.com or someplace like clipart.com Save the clipart and then name the clipart so you recognize it. Open the image in Microsoft PE and change the resolution to make sure it is 96 ppi. Then save it as a gif. Now reopen it and save the same image as a jpeg. Insert both versions below and label which is the gif and which is the jpeg.
  3. Find a logo from the Internet (mostly text, just a few colors). Save the logo to your computer and name it so you recognize it. Open the logo in MPE. If it already has a transparent background, resave it as a jpeg so it loses its transparency. If there is a white or color background, save it as a gif and make the background color transparent. Insert your final image in this document.
  4. Insert a piece of Word Art into a Word document. Change at least three things about the word art using the formatting options. Now save it as a gif or jpeg (depending on the attributes of the image), following the directions on the Word Art page. Reinsert the Word Art - this time as a gif or jpeg - into your final document. Label which format it is and why you chose that format.
  5. Scan an image, text, or image and text using the scanner. Save what you scan. Open it in MPE (if an image) or Microsoft Word if there is text and clean it up. Make sure it is no larger in its FINAL version that 6 inches by 4 inches. Insert your final version into your project document.
  6. Insert a piece of clipart from your clipart gallery. Copy and paste it three times (so you have four total copies of it in your document). Leave on as original. Make one grayscale. Make one black and white. Make the final one a watermark.
  7. Open Microsoft Paint. Create a simple logo using no more than 3 colors. Save your logo as a bmp image and insert it into your project document.
  8. Take a picture with the digital camera. Rename the picture. Attach that picture to an email that you send to yourself. Send a copy of the email to me (mattheba@unit5.org). In your project document, type the steps you followed to send the email - in your own words!
  9. Combine any elements from the previous 8 project possibilities and create your own unique activity that uses these elements but is focused for you personally. Include the finished product and a short description in your project document!

Word Document

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