Monday, January 7, 2013

Tech Idea for the Art Classroom

I found this idea from a popular Edublog that I follow, Edudemic.

In this article, they were suggesting a great way for student to learn about color and pixellated work using an PhotoShop image filter.

Since our MLTI laptops do not have PhotoShop, I checked Acorn, a light-weight photo editing application on all MLTI issued laptops.  Acorn, which is similar to Photoshop in its language, workflow and terminologies, does this feature as well.

A student could take an image of a famous work, like the Mona Lisa, or their own images and pixellate them to study color relationships, tints and shades.




Users can adjust the filter amount applied







MLTI has a video feature of Acorn from their MLTI Minute site (highly recommended as a frequent visit).  MLTI's Anna-Marie explains how users can use Acorn to paint, however this introductory video will help demo the use of Acorn.


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