Photoshop Express

Today's assignment was to create an account with Photoshop Express. This assignment focused on the manipulation of photographs. After creating an account, I uploaded a picture of me from my trip to the Grand Canyon then edited it by using the tools in Photoshop Express. The tools I used were pop color (in which I made the pink of my shirt pop) and text box (in which I made a text box on my picture and wrote "The Grand Canyon" in the same color as my shirt).

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Here is a link to my Photoshop Express Album.

The largest benefit of this program is that it's free. Because it is free it can easily be used in the classroom because students and teachers alike have equal access to the same tools without having to pay for the application. The uses for such an application in the classroom are many (i.e. fliers, posters, charts, diagrams, etc.). Also, like Picasa, Photshop Express allows users to store pictures online (up to 2G, for free), without having to use portable storage devices (like flash drives). In using this, and like processes, in classroom instruction, teachers might more readily demonstrate technology compliance in teaching within their content areas (TPCK).