Exercise 4 - Duck Dinner

This task is to use the any application available to you for combining two given photos into one. Suggested steps are provided below. There are many ways to accomplish this task. Can you find one?

Learning Objectives:

a. Saving Objects from Web Pages.
b. Learn the Basic Commands of other Applications.
c. Combining Photographs.
d. Use of Borders and adding Text.

Your result should be similar to the one given below.

Suggested steps:
Note:  Each exercise builds on previous ones.  Details for managing graphic files are omitted.  The steps now become more general.  You are encouraged to develop your own procedures and habits.  There are no wrong ways, if it works your way is the best for you.  If it doesn't do what you intended, try something else.

1. Capture the three pictures and save them to a file, merely click on the pictures with the right mouse button.

2. Start your chosen application, and open the picture of the duck and the dog. Use the window command to tile them.

3. Using the clone brush (if available) to paint out the ugly black duck by replacing him with water, rock, and grass.

4. Transform and resample the dog to 50% of his size. Be sure to keep the aspect ratio.

5. Close the original dog picture and tile the smaller one with the duck.

6. Transform the dog by flipping him horizontally.

7. Use any tool available to select the black dog and his red collar.

8. Select the edit copy tool to place the dog and his collar on the clip board.

9. Go to the picture of the duck and paste the dog in there.

10. Use the area move tool to position the dog down in the lower right corner.

11. If you need to you can use any touch up tool around the dog.

12. Add your inside red border.

13. Add a big green border.

14. Crop to the desired shape.

15. Add the outer red border.

16. Add in desired text.

17. Well done.

18. Save the result to a floppy to share with the class.

Did we achieve our learning objectives? They were. . .

Learning Objectives:

a. Saving Objects from Web Pages.
b. Learn the Basic Commands of other Applications.
c. Combining Photographs.
d. Use of Borders and adding Text.

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Prepared 12/22/01
Revised 10/15/02
For Class Members use.
By: Dean Christensen