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Christmas |
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| Now that you have learned how to use the tools in Dazzle to create a Christmas stamp, your next task is to design your own set of stamps to produce a sheet of Christmas wrapping paper..... | |||
 Step OneThink of two simple designs for Christmas stamps. One stamp could be a picture and the other could be a Christmas greeting, or you could create two pictures. Draw your designs roughly on paper.
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| Step 2 Open the Dazzle program and start a new page. Look at your drawing and try to plan which tools you will use to produce your stamps. Consider whether your design is symmetrical - if it is, then you can save time using the symmetry tool as shown here... |
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The symmetry
tool was turned on to up/down only to draw Rudolph's face and antlers using the pencil. His eyes were drawn first using the circle tool, then the round brush tool set to size 6. Symmetry was turned off to draw his nose using the circle tool. |
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The angel was also drawn using the symmetry tool and the pencil.
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| Mistakes can
be rubbed out using the round brush set to a suitable size and the colour of the
background - usually white at this stage. Don't forget to switch back to black to continue drawing with the pencil tool - you can't see a white line on a white background! |
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The symmetry tool also made it easier to draw a sprig of holly. The two leaf veins were first drawn using the line tool, then the leaf outline was drawn with the pencil. |
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| The berries
were made using the circle tool and the leaves were coloured using the fill tool. Remember to check and repair gaps in your outline if the fill colour floods the page. |
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The Christmas
pud and the snowman were both drawn using the circle tool. Details were added to the pud using the pencil.
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The snowman's hat is a straight line with a filled rectangle on top and snow sprinkled on using the Spray gun tool. The scarf was drawn using the pencil and filled in blocks of colour. |
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| The Christmas
greetings were written using the text tool. The font and font size were changed by clicking the right mouse button on the page.
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A border was added using the rectangle tool.
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| Step 3 When you have finished your pictures, turn them into stamps and save them.
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| If you need to
resize a picture, first drag a box around the picture using the select tool. Next, go to the Area menu on the top tool bar and select Scale.
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| Now click and
drag out a new rectangle into which your new sized picture will be fitted. This takes a
bit of practice to get right, so don't worry if it doesn't seem to work first time. If you
make your rectangle too small, you won't see your new picture and you need to select the
original again.
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| If you want to
avoid your resized picture looking out of proportion like this thin snowman, hold down the
CONTROL key when you are dragging out a new rectangle.
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If one of your stamps is much bigger than the other, it would be a good idea to resize them before the next step. | ||
| Step 4 Now start a new page and use your stamps to produce a repeated pattern for a wrapping paper design. Experiment with different arrangements until you are satisfied with your design. To save your work, click on File on the top menu bar and select Save As.
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Ask your teacher where you should save your work. It could be saved in a 'mywork' folder within Dazzle. Make sure you give your pattern a name that you can remember so you can find it again. | ||
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Step 5 Now print out your work. It would be a good idea if you made some notes about how you made your stamps - which tools you used to create effects and how you improved your work from your original design..... |
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| Do you think
that this was a suitable task to carry out on a computer? Can you think of any way in
which the Dazzle program could be improved?
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Go on to next worksheet... |
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