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Year 4

Evaluating digital images

I can evaluate how changes can improve an image.

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Year 4

Evaluating digital images

I can evaluate how changes can improve an image.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Edits can be reviewed for their effect.
  2. Images can be reviewed against a given criteria.
  3. Feedback can be used to guide editing choices.

Keywords

  • Improve - make something better

  • Review - to look at something and give your opinion

Common misconception

Editing always creates the perfect image first time.

Editing images can take time. It may take two or three edits before you are happy with the final image.


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This lesson provides a good opportunity for pupils to review and give feedback to each other. For the reviewing activity you could get students to give feedback to each other, rather than just self review.
Teacher tip

Equipment

The unit models the use of paint.NET but alternative image editing software can be used and modelled to pupils.

Licence

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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these can be used to combine different images?
a calculator
Correct answer: image editing software
a word processor
a search engine
Q2.
Match the words to the correct definition:
Correct Answer:publication,something that is made to communicate information

something that is made to communicate information

Correct Answer:design,a plan to show what something will look like before it is made

a plan to show what something will look like before it is made

Correct Answer:select,choose a specific area of a digital image

choose a specific area of a digital image

Correct Answer:clone,make an exact copy

make an exact copy

Q3.
Which tool is the most useful for removing part of an image?
paintbrush tool
fill tool
text tool
Correct answer: crop tool
Q4.
What is an example of an image improvement?
making an image blurrier
adding random shapes over a photo
Correct answer: adjusting colours to make it clearer
deleting the entire image
Q5.
When creating a new image, why is planning important?
Correct answer: it makes the process easier and more organised
it wastes time
it makes the image worse
it is not needed
Q6.
Which of these is an example of combining images?
writing text in a document
Correct answer: adding part of a photo inside another photo
printing an image
deleting a photo

6 Questions

Q1.
Why may you want to add text to an image?
to delete parts of the image
Correct answer: to give more information
to confuse people
to make it more colourful
Q2.
What colour should you avoid for your text?
a light colour
a dark colour
lots of different colours
Correct answer: the same colour as your background
Q3.
What is the colour wheel used for?
Correct answer: changing the colour of something
deleting parts of the image
printing parts of the image
cloning parts of the image
Q4.
What does the word improve mean?
make something confusing
Correct answer: make something better
make something worse
make something smaller
Q5.
What tool allows you the turn an image around a central point?
Correct Answer: rotate
Q6.
When you edit something, does it always make it perfect?
yes, if you make a change the image will always be perfect
yes, any improvement you make will make the image perfect
no, it is not possible to improve an image
Correct answer: no, it may take two or three edits until you are happy with the final image