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Editing Screen Captures Part 2:
Experimenting with Image Effects

In Part 1 of the Editing Screen Captures lesson plan, you discussed digitally edited photos with your students, and they became familiar with the Paint Tools in SnagIt. This second part continues the lesson by helping students become familiar with some of the Image Effects options in SnagIt. These options can be found on the Image, Colors, and Effects menus in Editor. Many of them can also be found in the Task Pane.

Objectives

In this lesson, students will:

Gain an understanding of some different ways images can be edited
Become familiar with the Image Effects features in SnagIt Editor

Grade Level

Any

Materials

Computer with Internet Connection

Software Used

SnagIt (Students may download and use the 30-day free trial from www.techsmith.com.)

Prerequisites

Students should have completed Editing Screen Captures Part 1: Introduction to Editor and Paint Tools prior to beginning this lesson.

Instructions

Part A: Capturing an image and opening it in SnagIt Editor

Have students use SnagIt to capture an image from an Internet news source and save the image to a file (.bmp or .jpg is fine) that they will later open in SnagIt Editor. Ask questions and offer help if they have any difficulty. Some links for major news sources include:
- Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/
- New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
- USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/
Alternatively, you could tailor the type of image students use based on your own lesson needs.
Have them follow these instructions to open a capture in SnagIt Editor:
- Launch SnagIt Editor by choosing Tools > SnagIt Editor from the SnagIt menu bar.
- Click Open to locate and open the capture you saved as a file.

Part B: Experimenting with Image Effects

Introduce students to the Image Effects options. They can be found on the Image, Colors, and Effects menus in SnagIt Editor.
Ask students to edit their capture in various ways with the Effects options.
Share the edited images at the end of the class period. Assign a couple of students to talk in detail about the changes they made to their images, and how which effects they used.