Computers

Rule of Thirds Cropping

The rule of thirds is a composition rule that helps you compose an image to make it more pleasing to the eye.

Objective:

Use Gimp to crop an image using the rule of thirds.

Example:

Original Image

The original image was cropped so that the head of the fox is in the lower right third of the image.

Cropping a photo in Gimp

Lesson Objective:

  • Crop a picture

Example:

Uncropped example

The image above was cropped to create a the new image below with a more panoramic feel to it.

Example

Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer is a slick little free website that can help you coordinate your colors for any design project. Some of the nice features of this little website are:

  • Export colors to: HTML+CSS, Photoshop, Gimp
  • Color blindness preview
  • Unique color scheme links so you can came back to your same settings.

Inspirational Poster

Objectives:
Give students a "job" like experience and let them show off there work.
Application of skills learned.

Requirements:
Photo editing program (Photoshop, Gimp, etc....)

Resources:
Stock Exchange ( sxc.hu ): A free (mostly) stock quality photos.

Guess That Number

Objectives:

  • Introduction to random numbers
  • For loops
  • Break statements

Resources:
Presentation about control structures (powerpoint or pdf)
C++.com

Student Instructions:
Write a program that randomly picks a number between 0 and 100, inclusive. Then ask the user to guess what number the computer guessed within 10 guesses. The computer should tell the user whether their guess was to low or two high.

Pseudocode:

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