A Classroom Dialogue

“Alright guys, you might all be like ‘O God that woman is reinventing the wheel’ but bear with me, this stuff’s not too bad and it goes pretty fast. Okay, release your mouse and do this and hit enter. There - oh great this is soo messy sometime I gotta go back in here and clean it up…undo is a really nice option – okay, when you’re working with ‘pict’ files you’ll see that they’re not really good so you really wanna save it as ‘jpeg’s, okay? Of course you can also save it as ‘gif’ but you’ll lose some image quality which may be really important for you guys in this project, right? So let’s open Photoshop Elements and think back to when you guys first saved your images that you-”

“Woahh – you’re going a little too fast. Do it again.”

“We can certainly do that. Okay, so let me show you how to crop your images because you might need to crop out a person you don’t want to see in your pictures – now, the only reason I chose the picture of the lilies is because I can crop like –well, see these, normally – ahh someone’s really gotta clean these files gosh they’re such a mess and they run down the system if your not too careful ah good I’ve finally found the folder - I mean, I’m just letting you know how it is. And here’s another thing you’re gonna find – besides cropping, there’s not much you can do with this image, see it’s taken really far away so what can you do? Cropping’s kind of neat but you can’t work all kinds of miracles, okay? Now, does everybody have this – is everybody looking? Okay now see what I just did - that’s probably a bad idea so you-”

“Can you show us what you’re doing because you’re going kind of fast…”

“Sure, no problem!…!”