M2-3+How+to+do?+Investigate

toc **INVESTIGATE: DUE 29th November**

= = =** AoI: Community and Service **= = = Write a short paragraph to explain how the project will link to the AoI of community and service.

=** Instru **** ction guide Research: who, what, why, where, when and how? **= Look at the examples of instruction guides. Explore three or more of these in a pair, follow the instructions and see if you can make the product or do the task. Add a picture or the file to your page with comments about what is good and what could be improved in each one. Think about colour, font, size, picture or other graphic, language, design and audience. Does it help you to make or do that thing? How does it do that? If not why not and how could it be improved?


 * Guide 1 (taken from: **ehow)

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=How to Use the Clone Stamp in Photoshop =

By an eHow Contributor

Photoshop's Clone Stamp tool copies pixels from one place to another. With the Clone Stamp you can delete distracting objects from the image's background, or remove unwanted dirt, scratches or problem areas that aren't improved by the Healing Brush. You can also be creative with the Clone Stamp tool and merge or layer images creating collages or montages

Read more: [|How to Use the Clone Stamp in Photoshop | eHow.com] [|http://www.ehow.com/how_2089624_use-clone-stamp-photoshop.html#ixzz2AIQy8Ryk]

Instructions
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 * 1  Open your composition. If you want to copy from one image to another, open both a clone source layer and a target or destination layer.
 * 2  Select the "Clone Stamp" tool from the toolbox.
 * 3  Familiarize yourself with the Option bar. This is where you choose your brush size, the type of brush, the blend modes and the opacity percentages.
 * 4  Hold down the "Alt" key in Windows and the "Opt" key in Mac to select the area you want to copy from. Your cursor will change to the Clone Stamp tool. Click to set the source
 * 5  Move your cursor to the area you want to copy to. Click and drag and a crosshair image moves along with the brush cursor. This indicates the center of the clone source.
 * 6  When you release the mouse button, you stop drawing a stroke. Shift and drag to resume drawing the previous stroke.
 * 7  Use "Align" to line up the source with the destination. Generally you leave this feature on. If it is on, you can use multiple strokes to paint on one copy. If you uncheck it, the source is the same for each brush stroke so you are always painting the same thing.

 Tips & Warnings

 * <span style="background-color: #0a5b93; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Arrange the windows so you can see both the source layer and the target or destination layer.
 * <span style="background-color: #0a5b93; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Carefully align your source and target or destination brush so they remain aligned.
 * <span style="background-color: #0a5b93; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Work with smaller sections to create a more natural looking image.
 * <span style="background-color: #0a5b93; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> For fine details, use small brushstrokes and change the source often.


 * Guide 2 (taken from **Wikihow)

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 * Guide 3 (taken from: Youtube) **

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 * Guide 4 (taken from: psd tuts+) **

=** Identify the problem - Who needs to learn how to use a piece of technology or software? **= Have you seen a person or group of people who need help with technology? What was their problem? Why did they have a problem? What did they do to solve it? Could you think of a way to help them in the future? Or perhaps you had a problem or difficulty you think others may have in the future. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 20.909090042114258px; line-height: 28.18181800842285px;">For example, maybe your teacher cannot make a video or your little brother cannot take good photos or your friend doesn't know how to use photoshop or your parents cannot use a spreadsheet. =Ideas for your instruction guide=

= = =** Instruction guide Research: Guiding questions **= Once you have decided which technology you will make an instruction guide for, you will need to find some more information, you might need books, the internet, to explore computer programs or to ask people = = = =
 * 1) Do you know how to do the activity yourself?
 * 2) What is the best way to teach someone else how to do this?
 * 3) Which program will you use? Are there more than one of these programs? Which is best?
 * 4) Do you know how to use your chosen program?
 * 5) Will you need to take photos? How can you take better photos? Can you make your photos better after you have taken them?
 * 6) Do you need to find some other things such as pictures or translations?
 * 7) What vocabulary do you need to use?
 * 8) what colours and combinations of colours are best to use?

=** Colour Research **= Here are some links to websites that can help you to pick colours and choose colour schemes:
 * Visibone here you can choose colours and look at them in different orders
 * dhtmlgoodies chose a colour and find colour schemes for it
 * Colour schemer upload your own photo and get the 6-digit hex code for it

= = =** Program tutorials **= Below are tutorials for programs you might want to use to make your guide: = =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 20.909090042114258px; line-height: 28.18181800842285px;">Photoshop
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 20.909090042114258px; line-height: 28.18181800842285px;">publisher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 20.909090042114258px; line-height: 28.18181800842285px;">Screencasting

=** Questionnaire / Survey / Interview **= Think of questions you might need to ask your target audience. Perhaps you need to confirm your ideas are correct or to get some ideas to begin the project. Create a questionnaire, survey or interview. Show me and then when it is approved, ask your target audience. Ideas could include: type of software, design, level of detail, words, pictures.

=** Explaining the challenge - posing the problem **= Complete the ‘explaining the challenge’ form. You need to explain why the problem you have chosen for your guide is a relevant problem and who are the stakeholders.



=** Sources **=

For each piece of information, list the source correctly using APA referencing. You also need to explain how helpful it is, how reliable it is and summarise what you found from that source.


 * Design Specification **

Once you have completed your research, use what you have found and the information from the context and challenge or write your design specification. You need to include:

__ Required __


 * My guide has to...
 * My guide will...

__ Desired __


 * My guide should be...
 * My guide should...

__ Test __

I will test my finished guide by...

=** Assessment Criteria **= Here are the assessment criteria for this unit.