Resources
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Best of the Best
- Adobe Photoshop.com: is your online photo sharing and editing resource. Upload, tweak, rotate, edit, share and store your photos.
Tutorials: Kelby Training Videos (These are great!) - http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-com/ I used a bunch of tutorials from Adobe TV. This is my new favorite place to learn about Adobe products.
- http://www.adobe.com/education/ – This site is Adobe’s education support page, with links to class activities, online tutorials, and other handy things. Some of the free tutorials require free registration to use.
- http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/ - This site has great lessons, training and much more.
- http://www.mountsihighschool.com/directory/_dockeryj/conferences/storytelling/index.html - I will be updating this site soon for my next summer camp.
Online Tools
- http://www.photoshopuser.com/ – A web site just for Photoshop users. Some free materials, some for-fee. Well worth the money!
- Wordle: This is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
- BuzzWord: Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there's no installation required.
- Google Docs: Create, upload/download or share your Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.
Free Stock Photos
Pics4Learning: http://www.pics4learning.com/
Public Domain Photo Database Photo: http://www.pdphoto.org/
Public Domain Photos: http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
Flickr Free Use Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse
Government Sites
NOAA: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
NASA: http://nix.nasa.gov/
Copyright
- The Four Biggest Mistakes in Thinking You Can Make: This spells out some basic mistakes people make when thinking about copyright. Read this one!
- Copyright in an Electronic Environment: Make sure to read the fourth bullet about Fair Use online.