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Introduction
RM
Colour Magic is a drawing and painting application widely
used in UK Primary Schools. Apart from some issues I
have regarding the way it prints I think that it provides
an excellent introduction to the world of image editing.
Unlike many graphics applications aimed at children,
Colour Magic has a standard look and feel and its features
would be familiar to anyone who has worked with more
sophisticated, professional graphics applications.
I have been
experimenting and have come up with a few projects and
ideas that I think will appeal to primary age children.
These are not teaching materials (I am not a teacher).
They probably won't tick all the necessary boxes regarding
learning targets (maybe they will tick some). But hopefully
they will be fun.
Before we
start
This
is not a Colour Magic manual. It does not tell you how
to open a file, nor does it introduce each of the tools;
RM do that perfectly well already. The projects assume
that a user is already familiar with these basics. However,
there are a couple of more 'advanced' topics that are
worth getting to grips with first and these aren't explained
that well by RM:
Working
with Photographs
Gaining
more control of the Printer
Supplies
Some
projects require more than just plain paper. The following
is a list of supplies and suppliers:
The Projects
The
projects can either be demonstrated (perhaps on a whiteboard)
or they can be printed out for a child to follow. Some
projects require the use of a template which can be
downloaded by right clicking and choosing 'save as'.
Other
Colour Magic projects (external websites)
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