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Photos: Practice with Photographs
Directions: We're going to experiment with a photograph to see what changes result when we alter its resolution, its size and its format. Answer the questions as we go through the activity and save your completed worksheet in your Groups folder. Open the Class folder and find the folder named DesResourc.
Inside, you will find a folder called Graphics. Open it, right click on the file named dolls.tif, and copy it to your Desktop. Find the file on your Desktop, right click it, and go to Properties.
How large is the photo file "dolls.tif"? Ans If 10 bytes = one word (a word of language, not a computer word), and 5 Megabytes = Complete works of Shakespeare, is this a comparatively large file? Ans According to the Properties window, what type of file is this? Ans We're going to insert this photograph into a Word document open a new document in MS Word, go to your Insert menu, and choose Picture>>From File
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After the picture is inserted, type a title (Dollheads) under the photo and save the Word file to your desktop name it BigDolls.
Go back to the desktop and right click>>Properties on the file BigDolls how big is this Word file? Ans Open BigDolls, so a Save As, and call the new file MedDolls. Now use your Picture tools to drag the photo and make it smaller. Save MedDolls on your desktop. .
Right click on MedDolls how large is this Word Ans.
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Select the photo and open the picture tools we will use Word to compress the picture:
How big is the file now? Ans.
Name________________________________Comp. # ______________Class time_______________________ Now go to your Start menu and open the program Adobe Photoshop Elements. Go to File>>Open, find the photo Dolls.tif, and open it. Go to Image>>Resize>>Image Size.
Change the image width size from 10.5 to 5 inches and save this as Dolls2 on your desktop. Right click>>Properties on Dolls2 how big is the file? Ans What accounts for the change? Ans Go back to Photoshop Elements and the Dolls2 file. This time, go to Save for Web. Take the default option and say save. You will get a new prompt. Save it on the desktop as Dolls3. How big is ...