For the Yearbook this year, each OIS Senior gets 1/3 of a page to make your mark in the your final school yearbook. In the past this has usually been by creating a collage of photographs. To create this page you will need to scan some photographs using Adobe Photoshop CS , and set them out on your section Here are some instructions to help you through this process.
Finding Your Yearbook Section
The Yearbook files are on NAS01 in the Publication folder
Double click マイ ネットワーク My Network (In case you don't know yet, the computers in the MM lab have only a Japanese version of Windows)
Now go to NAS01
Find the Publications folder and open it
Open the Yearbook 2004 2005 folder
Open the All Photos folder
Open the OIS Seniors folder
Now find your section (it has your name) double click this file to open it in Adobe Photoshop CS
Scanning Photographs
Scanning photos is easy. There are three scanners available in the MM lab. Make sure you are sitting at a computer with a scanner attached to it. (I know that sounds obvious but you'd be surprised how many people try to scan when they have logged into the wrong computer!!)
Lift the scanner cover and place the photograph(s) face down - you can scan more than one picture at a time. In many ways a scanner is just like a photocopier.
There are many types of software that will work with a scanner, but for this task I recommend that you use Adobe Photoshop CS
Click the START menu, go to Programs, then Adobe Photoshop CS (You may already have this program running from earlier)
Once you have Photoshop running, open the File menu, go to Import, and then click EPSON TWAIN 5...
Now wait while the scanner goes to work... it takes a minute or two, so be patient. Eventually you will get a control window like this.
If it all looks OK, the pictures are straight, etc.. click the scan button
Of course, if you only wanted to scan only one picture you could use the mouse to draw a box around the pic you want before clicking scan.
Now wait again while the scanner goes to work... it takes a minute or two, so be patient. Eventually you will get your photos in Photoshop. If it all looks OK, then click the close button , otherwise, you could scan again.
Working with Photoshop
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of things you can do to a picture in Photoshop... but for the yearbook I want to show you just a few important ones.
Selecting a Small Part of a Scanned Photograph
Take the marquee tool (dotted square) from the tool box and draw a box around the part of the photo you want.
Now copy this, (press ctrl-c or go to the Edit menu and choose Copy)
Click on your Yearbook Section and paste the copied part (press ctrl-v or go to the Edit menu and choose Paste)
You can now resize it to the size and position you want
Go to the Edit menu, choose Free Transform
You can now shrink, or stretch, move or rotate the picture.
When you are happy with the picture, click the Move tool again.
Click apply to lock the picture in place.
Continue building up your Yearbook section with images.
You don't need to save any scanned photos that you have already placed onto the section as they will be already saved on that page
Get some photos, scan them, copy them onto your yearbook section and arrange them.