ceojilo.blogg.se - Photodesk remake

You should get something looking like this (scaled for the web):.

The image will only be rendered when you fix it, either by pressing Space or clicking on the Tick. It's important to realise that this is only a preview nothing has been drawn so far. If the hands aren't placed right, just drag them around. An outline will follow the mouse, and when you release the Select button the image will appear (providing the Copy: Preview icon is on).

Now just drag the hands (click and hold anywhere inside them) onto the sunset picture.

Open the Copy window menu, and load your saved selection ( Copy >Load from>#4 Alpha).

Make sure the hands image is currently active (click menu anywhere over the image), and ensure you're in Montage mode.

Load this into Photodesk, alongside the hands.

Sunset over Chapel Allerton with Moon and plane This process is sometimes known as "defringeing" or "dematting" you can get a similar effect while you're actually making a selection by using the Feather option in the Copy window. This blurs the edges slightly and gives a much better effect when you paste it somewhere it ensures that edge pixels will 'blend' in colour with the destination. To fix this, click on the Grow icon this adds a small amount to the edges of the mask. When we come to paste it somewhere this will show up, especially if it's a contrasting colour.

Notice how there's an unpleasant blue outline round the hands, caused by imperfect selection.

Click on the Palette icon to go back to painting mode, then click on the Mask icon on the toolbar the Masking effect window will open.

Now that we have a mask, we can do some useful and interesting things.

“New” seating at the high school library came from the school’s commons area.Feedback : hosted by : the iconbar now : A former bookshelf at the Southgate library, for instance, was de-shelved and repurposed to become a high top table where students can do projects at the high school, some shelving units were made to become modular and backed with Smart-like board material - similar material was used in the Southgate library. There is also a charging area for devices.Īt both Southgate and at AHS, modifications were made with little money, but with lots of staff labor.

The high school library also has a “Tech Cafe” where students come for tech support. Technology is still considered a support, rather than a focus. “Overall, we’re really trying to provide more choices with learning, that school is more than the classrooms,” she said. And, there are still tables and quiet spaces, where students can spread out homework. There is also a “Brain Break” area, where students can escape from a heavy academic day, “but still have something that can engage their brains,” such as Sudoku and jigsaw puzzles. As a result, other spaces sprang up, from a makerspace that hosts a 3D printer, where students design inventions and are able to print them to a “Break and Make” area, where students take old electronic parts and remake them into new artistic creations.

Deb video production area, once housed in the center, was moved to larger classroom quarters due to the popularity of the class, Thuesen said. Other books have been purged - some of them too old to be accurate any longer - and the others reshelved. Some students have wondered “where the new books came from,” when, in fact, they were always in the library. Some of this furniture was formerly in the commons area shelving has been rearranged, and books are now found by genre. The high school media center has been redesigned, using shelving and furniture already on hand. “They don’t realize that there were here all the time.” “I have kids who say, ‘Where did those books come from?’” Thuesen said. Staff also realigned the books to be classified by genre, instead of the traditional subject/author format. “All the walls were cream-colored, every one,” Thuesen said, chuckling.

Both schools moved its shelving to allow for creation of open spaces that provided more comfortable seating.Īs was the case at Southgate, the high school gave its library a fresh coat of paint to create interest. Both schools purged their libraries of books that had many duplicates, or were no longer accurate in terms of geography and history. Staff got to work, following some of the same principles as those used at Southgate. “They also said they found the library kind of blah,” she said. They found students wanted quiet spaces, and places to work in small groups, They had surveyed students last year to find out what they wanted in their library. Amy Thuesen, the technology integrationist at the high school worked with instructional coach Alexa Dolan Peterson and media technician Anne Christopherson to create new spaces in the media center, too. A green screen in the Southgate Elementary School library allows students to interact in a virtual space for things like puppet shows.