Container Assignment

Key elements

• all students are to use the triangle template. This template is to be used as the instructional model for the introduction of photoshop.
• students will be asked to pick a second template from those provided.
• all images to be used were to be representative of real world examples of cones, spheres, prisms, cylinder, rectangular prisms.

Using Photoshop

open photoshop open selected template save project to the student home drive	use internet to locate suitable images copy the found image (on a PC Right click and on a Mac Control click) and paste (on a PC Control "v" and on a Mac Command "v") into photoshop (new layers are formed each time an object is pasted into photoshop). You may also go to the "Edit" command dropdown menu and select "paste". all further work will be done on the image layer. click on "Edit" (drop down menu) and scroll down to "Free Transform". The allows the image to be resized and positioned onto the template. Hint: hold down the Shift Key and all components of the image will be constrained preventing distortion.
on the "Layers" pallette locate the "Opacity" slider and move it to the left reducing the opacity to about 40%. This makes the image transparent to the point that you are able to size the outline below the image. resize and postion the image	click on the "arrow" at the top of the toolbox on the left hand side a pop-up will appear asking you to confirm the transformation. select "Apply".
select the "Polygon Lasso Tool" from the tool box found on the left hand side. It is the third tool down. If not visible just click on the the tool box ixon at this location and three different types of lasso's will appear. select the appropriate one.	select a starting point which is usually at a corner. click and drag your mouse to the next corner and click. continue to drag and click until you are back at the starting point having outlined the part of the template that is to contain the image.
double click and the tracing will be complete	go to the "Select" dropdown menu and select "Inverse". This procedure selects everything that is outside the area that we marked with the Polygon Lasso.
go to the "Edit" menu and select "Cut". This will remove all parts of the image that we do not want to become part of our template.	the result is an image that now conforms to part of our template go back to the "Opacity"slider and move it back to 100%. repeat this procedure for all the remaining parts of the template.