I am an oil painter and very often take pictures of things I would eventually like to paint. 5 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter I switched from a great 35mm camera to digital...NikonD90...my life hasn't been the same! I am obsessed with digital photography, Photoshop etc... If you want to check out a really cool site try: www.worth1000.com....I'm already off topic!!!
OK so when this project started on Pinterest I knew I was in trouble!
I never used Pixlr before but certainly will again! So much fun and easy!! For a free resource - the editor was excellent and the express and pixlr-o-matic my kids loved playing around with.
Picasa - something else that was new to me. I have used snapfish.com for years to organize my pictures and get prints, collages, gifts etc... I was inpressed with everything you can do with Picasa but when every picuture on my computer downloaded to photoviewer on the google created site...I was a little freaked out! LOL There was a bit of a learning curve but it was easy to use and lots of fun. I was loving the special effects...I created a movie and a cute collage. We did a 1920s project last year with a class where they had to put themselves into a scene from the 20s and write about it....so I'm thinking this could help with that process! I need to come up with some ways to incorporate this into the classroom....my students will love it!
The word clouds I have done before using Wordle and I also found a nice elementary version for the teachers to use....http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
My students enjoyed using sites like www.imagechef.com and http://bighugelabs.com/ when we were afterschool one day making Valentines....so check it out.
A great tool I used was clipping magic!! OMG....so easy! A great tool to take the background out of a picture...so easy and free!! I also LOVE tubechop! We use youtube all the time at school and so often we just need a few minutes of a video...again this was easy...bascially move the slider to the amount of video you want and it chops it! You can save the clip you want.
OK....I could go on and on...really want to try an animated gif....
