Photo Editing SOFTWARE
The software programs listed here are just a few of many available Photo Editing programs on the market that are designed to help you edit, organize and share digital photos.
Software |
Description |
License |
Platform |
| iPhoto | Photo editing and sharing | Commercial | Mac |
| Imagewell | Image editing and manipulation | Free | Mac |
| Picasa | Photo editing, organizing, and CD creation | Commercial/Free | PC |
| Photostory3 | Includes slideshows and soundtracks with photos | Commercial | Mac,PC |
| Adobe Photoshop | Edit, organize, and share photos | Commercial/Trial | Mac, PC |
| Adobe Photoshop Elements | Edit, organize, and share photos | Commercial/Trial | Mac, PC |
| Comic Life | Turn photos into comic strips | Commercial | Mac |
| Photo to Movie | Convert digital photos to a digital slideshow | Commercial, Trial | Mac, PC |
The varied capabilities of a Photo Editing tool includes, but are not limited to the following: edit photos such as to remove red eye, zoom in, add effects, change color or sharpen the focus; create a slideshow, photo journal, album, card, calendar, or e-book; print the photo, make a CD or send digital photos in an Email, publish to a website, import into a digital movie or a photocast.
- Applied Technology: Audio software in applied technology can help students communicate community and environmental issues through recording for example; a speech, instructions, or advertisement and sharing their audio files with community members and workplace personnel.
- Art: Photo Editing software can not only record the students art work, but can also help students express their ideas through the digital photo by enhancing the image such as editing or adding special effects.
- Foreign Language: Photo Editing software in foreign language can help students build vocabulary through images and skills in expressing themselves in the target language as they tell stories through digital photos.
- Health and Physical Education: Photo Editing software in physical education can help document students physical fitness achievements and in health education can share images to promote and advocate for healthy lifestyles.
- Language Arts: Photo Editing software in language arts is a tool to help students tell a story through digital photos by creating slideshows, e-books, photo journals, and comic strips. Using transitions and editing they can demonstrate their understanding of the text through visual effects.
- Mathematics: Photo Editing software in math can help students visually represent math calculations and geometric shapes. Photos can also be used to make puzzles.
- Science: Photo Editing software in science can help students create a photo journal, album or e-book to identify living and nonliving things. Digital photos can also help document the process of change during a lab experiment.
- Social Studies: Photo Editing software is a tool to help students tell a photo story of a historical time period or a geographical location.
Sample Lesson Plans
The following sample lesson plans provide a general idea on how the Photo Editing tool can be integrated in a content area and grade level. Although there may not be an example for every content area or at every grade level, the lessons from one content area or grade level can often be adapted to another due to its open-ended approach.
GRADE LEVELS K-2
Language Arts
- Habitat Movies: Students will produce a piece of writing that describes an animal and its habitat.
- Interactive Journeys: Students will use technology to enhance their field trip.
- Puzzles: Student will match visual attributes by completing puzzles of known objects.
- Sequencing: Student will sequence familiar daily events.
- Student/Picture Match Game: Student will use Kidspiration as a tool to help students learn each others' names.
Mathematics
- Fact Families: Students will create fact families.
- Puzzles: Students will create puzzles of familiar classroom objects and activities.
Science
- Human Body Parts: Students will locate and label body parts.
- Testing Dissolved Oxygen: Students will collaborate to test for dissolved oxygen.
Arts: Visual
- Cardinal Directions: Students will know and recognize cardinal directions.
- Cardinal Directions in the Classroom: Students will recognize cardinal directions within the classroom.
- Creating Plants: Students will communicate ideas and information about plants effectively.
- Family Culture: Students will tell about their family heritage by writing a story and illustrating it with a picture of a family item.
- Habitat Movies: Students will produce a piece of writing that describes an animal and its habitat.
- Interactive Journeys: Students will use technology to enhance their field trip.
Social Studies
- Cardinal Directions: Students will know and recognize cardinal directions.
GRADE LEVELS 3-5
Arts: Theatre
- A Day in the Life: Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events.
- Gettysburg Movie: Students will know the causes and important events of the Civil War by reading and depicting the Gettysburg Address.
Arts: Visual
- Animated Cartoons: Students will create an animated iMovie out of pictures created in art class.
- Autograph Story: Students will write a narrative essay.
- Camera for a Day: Students will observe appropriate behavior in their classmates.
- Clay Animations: Students will create and film clay animations using knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts.
- Geometric Figures: Students will create an expository response in which ideas and details follow an organizational pattern and are relevant to the purpose by explaining why the item from their environment forms the requested geometric figure and creating a book to share their pictures and information.
- Gettysburg Movie: Students will know the causes and important events of the Civil War by reading and depicting the Gettysburg Address.
- Interactive Journeys: Students will use technology to enhance their field trip.
- Summary Movie: Students will summarize a reading selection by creating an iMovie.
Language Arts
- A Day in the Life: Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events.
- Animated Cartoons: Students will create an animated iMovie out of pictures created in art class.
- Autograph Story: Students will write a narrative essay.
- Camera for a Day: Students will observe appropriate behavior in their classmates.
- Classmate Grid: Students will use a coordinate grid using information about their classmates.
- Classmate Pictograph: Students will make a pictograph using information about their classmates.
- Geometric Figures: Students will create an expository response in which ideas and details follow an organizational pattern and are relevant to the purpose by explaining why the item from their environment forms the requested geometric figure and creating a book to share their pictures and information.
- Gettysburg Movie: Students will know the causes and important events of the Civil War by reading and depicting the Gettysburg Address.
- Making Books: Students will make their own personal books using iPhoto.
- Poem Movies: Students will develop a sense of imagery by choosing appropriate pictures to go with the poem.
Mathematics
- Geometric Figures: Students will create an expository response in which ideas and details follow an organizational pattern and are relevant to the purpose by explaining why the item from their environment forms the requested geometric figure and creating a book to share their pictures and information.
Science
- Human Body Parts: Students will locate and label body parts.
GRADE LEVELS 6-8
Arts: Music
- Learning Abstract Concepts: Students will create a movie with photos, graphics and music that depicts an abstract concept.
Arts: Theatre
- European Newscast: Students will work collaboratively to learn about other cultures through internet research and then produce a newscast.
Arts: Visual
- Creating a Movie: Students will learn how to use multimedia tools to create and share a movie.
- Learning Abstract Concepts: Students will create a movie depicting an abstract concept.
- Publishing a Magazine: Students will learn to use iPages for publishing a magazine.
Language Arts
- Learning Abstract Concepts: Students will create a movie depicting an abstract concept.
- Publishing a Magazine: Students will learn to use iPages for publishing a magazine.
GRADE LEVELS 9-12
Arts: Theatre
- Creating an Animated Film: Students will develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film.
Arts: Visual
- Creating An Animated Film: Students will develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film.
- Developing Cartoon Characters: Students will learn how to develop cartoon characters through online cartooning exercises.
- Pirate WANTED Poster: Students will investigate the character traits of a 17th and 18th century pirate.
Language Arts
- Pirate WANTED Poster: Students will investigate the character traits of a 17th and 18th century pirate.
Social Studies
- Pirate WANTED Poster: Students will investigate the character traits of a 17th and 18th century pirate.