Lesson 3 - PhotoPea

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Lesson 3 - PhotoPea

Year 8

Other than creating amazing movie posters...

What other tasks could you use Photopea for ?

Remember to explain how it can be used to complete the task.

KO: To use image editing software to create a graphic (Movie Poster) (Photopea)

All

• Identify the key tools in PhotoPea and know what they do.
  

Most

• Use the advanced tools within PhotoPea, to create a 'High-Quality' Poster.
  
• Use graphic design as a tool to target a specific audience.
  

Some

• Understand how colours, fonts and imagery can be used to convey different messages and emotions to an audience

Open your movie poster from the lesson last time.

https://www.photopea.com/

File > Open > PSD File

If you were off like week go File > New > Print > A4 > Create

Create your movie poster

You have been asked to create an A4 poster to advertise ONE of the following films.

Remember to include:

• Background image
  
• Suitable Title
  
• Suitable main graphic
  
• Suitable body text - short sentence introducing the film
  
• Footer Content - Age information, web address, film company logo
  

1. Option 1 - Finest Hour (Action Film)
   
2. Option 2 - Garibaldia (Epic Journey)
   
3. Option 3 - Pirate Pete and the Golden Monkey (Family Adventure Film

Peer Assessment Hats - Use the sentence starters to write a feedback sentence from each coloured box to help your partner improve their work

Let's go through one together.
I will need a volunteer.

Main Activity

Now it's time to improve

Based on the feedback you have received from your partner, you will need to improve your posters. 

Recap

Checklist

• Background image
• Suitable Title
• Suitable main graphic
• Suitable body text - short sentence introducing the film
• Footer Content - Age information, web address, film company logo

• Option 1 - Finest Hour (Action Film)
• Option 2 - Garibaldia (Epic Journey)
• Option 3 - Pirate Pete and the Golden Monkey (Family Adventure Film)

Now let's save our work and upload

Saving as a PSD

1. Click File 

2. Click Save As PSD

3. Save in your OneDrive HomeFolder

Saving as a JPEG

1. Click File

2. Click Export

3. Click JPG

4. Then Save in your OneDrive Home Folder

Plenary

What file format should you use to OUTPUT your movie poster in Photopea?

1. DOCX
2. PPTX
3. GIF
4. JPEG

How do we remove the background from an image

1. Select > Cut
2. Select > Remove BG
3. Image > Crop
4. Select > Magic Cut

How do we change the brightness of an image?

1. Blur tool
2. Pixelate tool
3. Opacity tool
4. Distort tool