Lesson 1 - PhotoPea

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Lesson 1  - Introduction to PhotoPea 

Bell Activity 

What is the difference between a graphic and a photo?

Starter - What is wrong with this image?

How can this image be improved?

What software / tools could you use to make the graphic look more realistic?

KO - To learn how to use Photo-editing software to manipulate images

All - Identify the advance tools in photopea.

Most - Use the tools to adapt assets in Photopea / Create a 'high-quality' layered graphic using image editing software.

Some - Understand how image editing can be used to enhance an image.

What we are going to do in today's lesson

• Download the image and save it in our OneDrive folder.
• Open the image using PhotoPea. 
• We are then going to manipulate the existing image, using PhotoPea. 
• We need to remove the white background and add some images in of our own.

Links we need to open

Click here to open the image template

Click here to open PhotoPea

Task 1 

Remove the background from the dolphin.

YouTube video - Magic Wand Tool

Task 2 

Find some more images and add them.

YouTube Video - Importing Images

Skill test

I now want you to create your own image, using the tools that you have learnt in today's lesson.

If I wanted to remove the background from an image, I would use

1. Magic wand tool
2. Crop Tool
3. Eraser Tool
4. Colour Replacement Tool

To change the image brightness, what tool would I use?

1. The Opacity Tool
2. The Gradiant Tool
3. The Blur Tool
4. The Smudge Tool