Month: September 2025

Would you buy the new Kindle Scribe ColorSoft?

Classwork:
1. keep up working on your missing assignments.
2. next assignments:
Photoshop: Turn Day Into Night
Photoshop: Create a Reflection
3. new assignment: Photoshop 3d Pop Out Effect

Hope you had a good weekend!

Agenda:

1. grades – check out your assignment grades on Canvas.  If you are missing work, turn it in for credit.
2. Finish up Photoshop Shadows & Adjustments
3. Our next two assignments are based on tutorials from photoshopcafe.com and digital-photography-school.com.  I’ve used them for years and highly recommend.  Use headphones.

Photoshop: Turn Day Into Night

Photoshop: Create a Reflection

Greetings from University of Oregon!  I’m helping my son move in to the dorms and will be back on Monday.

Please be welcoming and respectful to your guest teacher. Remember:
1. all phones in the phone holder.
2. no good or drink at or near the computuers.
3. one person out at a time with the hall pass.
4. focus on the work assigned for today’s class.

Your assignment today is:
1. complete the Rock Blaster tutorial and turn in  the completed game on Canvas.

2. Start the Jumping Game tutorial.

 

Tech News – DJI Osmo Nano camera

Photoshop – Then and Now

5th period:
Turn in your quizzes on Canvas AND on our Google Form!
Then click here and let’s take some quizzes!!

Next we will start a Scratch Maze Game!

2nd period
Your next assignment is the popular Photoshop Makeover. 

 

The new Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses – let’s talk
The product page
Short demo

Today: We work together with:
-creating backgrounds
-using the powerful if/else statement in your programs.  This gives more choice and options to your user.

Assignment: Scratch Quiz

 

The new Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses – let’s talk
The product page
Short demo

Together: Photoshop and Text – please download the Jetski image again
text layers
colors and fonts: why they matter
adding layer styles to text layers
using transform tools on text

Your next assignment on your own:
Photoshop Text
You will create three text/image compositions.  Please don’t turn in our sample jetski and text image.

Leaked video reveals details of upcoming Meta SmartGlasses

ios26 is available for (some) iPhones

Today-

Your next assignment is the Scratch Shape Chooser.  Start with a blank Scratch program.

If you finish Scratch Shape Chooser please start Scratch Rock Blaster Game.  This is a step-by-step guide to creating this game.

 

Leaked video reveals details of upcoming Meta SmartGlasses

ios26 is available for (some) iPhones

Today, we will explore some adjustment features and filters in Photoshop.

Start by downloading these photos:
jetski
painting

Open up both images in Photoshop.  We will use adjustment layers and filters to the jetski photo and then blend the jetski into the painting.

This gives you the skills to complete your next assignment: Photoshop- Blending Fine Art

NASA dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization.

Darn. I was getting ready for visitors.

5th period Computer Programming
We will continue to work with inputs in Scratch to create custom shapes based on what the user wants.

On your own: Input with Line Thickness

4th period Computer Graphics

Next assignment: When Aliens Visit…

Previous assignments – check your Canvas to see if you are missing work.
Fantasy Landscape
Tattoo Effect
Hybrid Animal
Virtual Vacation
Time Travel
Group Photo Edit