- Define and explain Making Images in your own words
- Use key terms such as file accurately
- Apply what you have learned to new examples and questions
- Avoid the common mistakes learners make with this topic
This lesson focuses on Making Images: create and edit pictures, then save them with sensible file names.
Create and edit pictures, then save them with sensible file names.
Key ideas
Respect other people's work
Pictures and music you find online belong to someone. Only use images you made yourself, or ones your teacher says are free to use — and always say where a borrowed image came from. This habit is called giving credit, and it is the law as well as good manners.
Save and name like a pro
Save your work often, and give files names that describe them, like 'volcano-poster-final', instead of 'untitled1'. Future you will be very grateful when it is time to find the file again.
Key term — file: A single saved piece of work on a computer, such as one picture or one slideshow. Files live in folders so you can find them again.
Your slideshow file will not open and you last saved it an hour ago. What habit would have saved your work?
Saving often — every few minutes — so only a few minutes of work could ever be lost.
Answer: Saving often — every few minutes — so only a few minutes of work could ever be lost.
- Using a picture from the internet with no credit Correction: use your own drawings or teacher-approved images, and write down where any borrowed image came from.
- Cramming every word onto one slide Correction: keep slides visual — a picture plus a short caption beats a wall of text every time.
Practice
Use music your teacher says is free to use, or record your own — and always credit the creator.
'dolphin-poster-final' — it describes the file's contents, so you can find it without opening it.
It shows many slightly different pictures one after another very quickly, and your eyes blend them into smooth movement.
A storyboard is a set of sketches showing each scene in order; it lets film-makers plan and fix problems on paper before expensive filming starts.
Quick check
Which of these best defines "file"?
True or false: it is fine to copy a whole story from a website into your slideshow as long as it looks nice.
- Making Images: create and edit pictures, then save them with sensible file names.
- Respect other people's work: Pictures and music you find online belong to someone.
- digital media: Anything you create on a computer that others can see or hear: images, slideshows, animations, video and sound recordings.
- Watch out for: using a picture from the internet with no credit