Editing a Picture Using "Paint"

 
 
It is VERY important that you read all the directions one time before you begin to do anything on the computer.  This process can be tricky and all directions must be followed carefully if you want a good result.  You must also go very slowly and carefully when working with the pictures.  Do NOT rush through this activity!

 
 
You will need to have 2 windows open on your computer to do this activity.  First, open PowerPoint and choose a blank presentation with a plain, white slide.  Then minimize this screen to the bottom.  Next, you open the Paint program and minimize that screen also.  Follow these directions carefully:
 

1.  Make sure the disk with your picture and the picture of your explorer is in the computer.

2.  Open the PowerPointprogram to the blank slide you have chosen.  Go to INSERT and hold down the mouse button for the menu.  Choose Picture and follow the arrow over to where it says From File...
A small menu will come up with your picture and the picture of your explorer on it.  Choose the picture of your explorer and tell it to INSERT.  If the picture is too large for the slide, grab one of the corner boxes and drag it so that it is smaller (about 1/2 the size of the slide).  Then do a right click on the mouse and choose COPY.

3.  Open up the Paint program and go to the EDIT menu.  Slide down to Paste and paste in a copy of your explorer's picture.  It should be about 1/2 of the size of this screen also. 
 
 

Steps 4 and 5 are VERY important so go slowly and ask for help if you need it!



4.  On the same Paint screen, go to EDIT again.   This time choose Paste From and choose your 3 1/2" floppy and paste in your picture that was taken with the camera.  It may be very large and you will have to select one of the corner bars and make it smaller.  You want to make it a size so that your face is the same size as the face of your explorer. 

5.  You are now going to actually cut and paste your face into the place where your explorer's face is on his picture.  This needs to be done carefully so go SLOWLY.    You need to select the star shape from the tool palette.  This is like a little pair of scissors but it only works while you are holding down the mouse button and dragging.  If you let up too soon or too late, you will need to do it over.  What you want to do is click on your explorer's face right where his face meets his hair/hat.  Push and hold down the mouse button and DON'T let up.  Keep dragging VERY carefully around your explorer's face until you have gone the whole way around.  When you meet the beginning where you started, let up on the mouse button and you should see a box of dotted lines come up.  Click anywhere in the box and drag the piece out of the picture onto the white area of the screen.  If it doesn't look right, go immediately up to Undo under EDIT and this will put it back so you can try again.

6.  You are now going to work on your picture that was taken with the camera.  What you want to do is cut out your face in almost exactly the same shape and size as the piece you took out of the explorer's picture.
You need to look carefully at the size and shape of what you cut out so that you can match it as closely as possible.  Use the star tool and click and slowly drag around your face the same way you did on your explorer's picture.  Then, when you think it is ready, drag your face over onto the picture of your explorer and put it into the blank space so that he gets your face.  If it is way too small or way too big, immediately raise your hand for help and DON'T click on anything else until the teacher gets to you!
If it fits pretty well, just let up on the mouse button and it will stay in your explorer's picture.

7.  There might be some little areas of white that need to be fixed so that it looks as though the explorer is really you.  To do that, go up to VIEW in the menu and choose Zoom.  This will make your picture VERY large so you can work on little tiny spaces.  You then want to choose the paintbrush with the smallest dot and decide what color you need for filling in the white.  If you're not sure, raise your hand for help.  You will fill in the spots by placing the mouse where you want the color and clicking one time.  This leaves one dot of paint that color.  If you need to fill in a larger area, you will be making quite a few dots.  To see how it's looking, go back to the VIEW menu and choose the normal size.

8.  When you have successfuly "morphed" your face into your explorer's picture, please raise your hand for the teacher or assistant to come and check it.  If it is okay, then go on to the next set of directions.
 
 

 

 
 
1.  To make the picture morph from the explorer to you, you need to select the dotted rectangular box in the toolbar.  You then click on the top left corner of the explorer's picture (with your face in it) and drag the box so it covers the picture but doesn't leave a lot of bare space around it.  You will then get a flashing dotted line around your picture to show that you have selected it.  You then want to go to EDIT and do a Copy.

2.  Next, open up your PowerPoint slide that has the picture of your explorer on it.  Go to EDIT and choose Paste and the picture of you and the explorer should appear.  Make your picture the same size as the first one by putting it over the top and grabbing the corner box to make it smaller or larger.  When they are both the same size, you want to animate them so it actually morphs on the screen.  The next set of directions tells you how to do that.
 

 
 
 
1.  Go to SLIDE SHOW and choose Custom Animation.  You then want to select the tab that says TIMING and choose the picture of your explorer from the internet (click on its name to make it grey).   Then click in the circle in front of the word animate.  Go to the EFFECTS tab and choose the Effect of No Effect.  Then click back to TIMING and choose the picture with you and the explorer and click on animate.  Go to EFFECTS and choose the effect of Dissolve with NO sound.  Now tell it to PREVIEW and the picture of your explorer should come up and then it should morph into the explorer again, but this time with YOUR face!  If this happens, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!    You have just been morphed to Europe in 15th or 16th century!  If it does NOT happen, raise your hand for help.

 
 
Now you need to save all of your hard work.  Go to FILE and choose Save As...  Make sure it is saving to your 3 1/2" floppy disk and then also save it to the My Documents section of the computer.  Before you go back to the web page for Activity 4, have the teacher or aide check your work!