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Lesley Rayner, the Head of Art at Astley High School and Raffia Khan have been particularly keen to introduce work in digital art to their programme of study and the school has bought a site license for Photoshop 5 to run on a networked suite of computers. This was particularly useful for a pilot project because it provided an opportunity to understand some of the problems and organizational issues associated with running powerful image processing software on a typical school network in addition to the usual issues of how to introduce students to a new set of skills.
Photoshop can appear to be a bewilderingly complex programme and our aim was to try to find a way to get an average class of Year 10 pupils to start exploring and using the software.
Our objectives for the pupils were
1. To familiarize the pupils with the Photoshop desktop and some of the specialist menus.
2. To concentrate on the features of Photoshop, such as the different ways of selecting parts of an image and working with layers which we thought made it different from other image processing programmes.
We also wanted to start with basic skills which we could reasonably expect all the pupils to have and move to a point from which students could begin to experiment with the programme for themselves. It was also important that we produced a self contained introductory unit which would produce a final piece of coursework in Year 10 but would be a foundation for other, more advanced work in subsequent years.
The school had purchased the full version of Photoshop 5.5, but we used the features of the programme which were common to the older Photoshop 4 and the less expensive Photoshop LE versions.
The Year 10 students who were involved in the project and whose work you see on this site were:
