- Setting up Photoimpact(only have to do once)
- Open Photoimpact
- Under Window, select Customize
- Select Commands
- Click and drag desired commands to toolbar at the left side of screen
- Most commonly used
- Under Edit
- Duplicate
- Rotate/flip
- Under Object
- Merge All
- Under View
- Zoom
- Eliminate tools not used to decrease clutter
- Select Toolbox
- On the toolbar to the left of the screen ,click and drag those buttons not needed to the Commandarea. Buttons to KEEP on the toolbar:
- Hit Close
- Move your new toolbar where you choose
- Scanning your worksheet
- On copy machine, hit Scanner
- Select your name
- Select Sender Name on bottom of screen
- Select your name again
- Hit OK
- Select Send File Type/Name on left side of screen
- Single Page: TIFF/JPEG
- Hit OK
- This is optional, but necessary if plan to do anything with color:
- Select Scan Settings on left side of screen
- Select Full Color: Text/Photo
- Hit OK
- Hit the green start button
- Save Scan:
- Open your email. There should be an email with your name listed as the sender (check the junk mail if it doesn’t come up in your inbox)
- Select Download under the small picture of your scanned worksheet
- Select Save
- Name and save to folder
- Getting Scan to PhotoImpact
- Open PhotoImpact
- Go to File tab
- select Open
- find your scan and highlight it
- Hit Open
- Go to Edit tab or use customized toolbar
- select rotate and flip and adjust as needed
- Maximize the sheet (top right corner)
- Zoom to 33% or as high as possible to fit screen
- The Tools
- Text tool
- Allows typing on worksheet
- Select
- Click where want to type on worksheet
- Use keyboard to type
- Can change font, color, and size
- Bucket Fill Tool
- Use to color in spaces
- Click on
- Go to color button on tool bar
- Pick desired color and hit OK
- Click section on worksheet where color is desired
- Paintbrush Tool
- Allows placement of colored “clicks” on worksheet
- Good for multiple choice worksheets
- Select
- Click where want to place marks
- Adjust color
- Adjust the size
- Adjust the transparency
- Selection Tool
- Use to highlight items you want to make into moveable ‘objects’ for use with mouse
- Select
- Go to word or picture you want to move and drag a box around it
- Click on the box and move just slightly; this will automatically make it a moveable ‘object’
- Pick Tool
- Use to grab an ‘object’ (the word(s) or picture(s) you previously made moveable)
- Select
- Click on ‘object’
- Drag to desired location
- Working with Objects
- Preserve Base Image
- Under Selection tab
- If checked: a copy of the ‘object’ will remain after you move it
- If not checked: the space will be blank after the ‘object’ is moved
- Duplicate
- Make as many copies of the ‘object’ as needed
- Make your ‘object’ then hit Duplicate button for as many copies as you need
- Merge All
- Needed when using multiple functions together
- For example, when moving objects to blanks then wanting to color in spaces
- Caution: you want to complete the moveable object portion first. After you hit “merge all” they will then become the background and no longer have the ability to move
- Text to Objects
- Able to type your own text using tool then make it a moveable ‘object’ using tool
- Saving a Modified Worksheet
- Go to File tab
- Select Save As
- *****Save As Type*****: UFO (Ulead File for Objects)
- If you don’t do this, your ‘objects’ will not be moveable when you open it!
- Hit Save
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