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Construct A Logical Plan Demonstrate Technical Skills Follow The Plan Justify Changes Made
Construct A Logical Plan
The tools below will help you when creating your Design Portfolio

Images

Do an image search at

Creative Commons 

Find images and .

Below is an example of an image with credit

“apples” by opala artur is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Flickr Commons

 

Public Domain

Images

Works in “public domain” don’t have a copyright. This means that you don’t need to give credit.

Below are a couple of sources

New York Public Library
Pd Photo

Pixlr

A basic image editor

 

Demonstrate Technical Skills

Remove Background

Most of the fun begins with this strand. Now you will need to find your images and edit them.

You can use Pixlr editor to remove a background from an image.

Click the butterfly below to open the app and then “open image from computer”.

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Double click on the lock in the “layers” panel to unlock the layer.

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Choose the wand tool (shortcut “w”).

pixlr-wandA plus symbol will appear when you hold the shift keyshiftKeywhile clicking to select the white background

After selecting the white background, click backspace to remove it.
If you are having trouble selecting, try experimenting with the “tolerance” setting in the upper left.

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The checkered background tells us that the background has been removed.

Save your image as a “PNG transparent full quality”.

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Upload your image and the background will be transparent!

Follow The Plan To Make The Solution

For this strand, we will write of what we accomplished for each day. Include processes you used and tools. List any changes made to the design or the construction plan.

Justify Changes Made To The Solution

 During the creation phase of any product, ideas change and the final product doesn’t always turn out as planned. In this strand you will write about the changes that were made to your plan and/or design idea while creating it.

 

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