Virtual School. Information Technology. Lesson 10.

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Paint Projects   Practise your Paint skills on one of these projects. 1. Paint a logo to use in headed notepaper. You could paint something to represent you, or paint something for a company which has asked you to design a logo for you.   2. Import the drawing of the package described in Lesson 9 number 5 and paint a design to help sell the product. You could design a box for a birthday cake with a cellophane window showing the cake. 3. Design a poster for a school disco or your favourite charity or good cause. You can import pictures from another clip art paint file and add pieces of your own. Use a variety of different paint tools to spray patterns, make shapes, fill them with colours and patterns etc. You may add text but remember that paint text is different from word processed text. Once typed in and deselected, paint text will be just a collection of pixels; it can't be edited except by erasing it with the paint rubber. 4. Design a card for a birthday, Christmas, anniversary or other festival. The orientation of the page should be landscape not portrait so make sure the page is wide rather than tall. Measure the middle point and draw a rectangle to fill the left half and another to fill the right half, leaving a narrow gap between the two. These will become the two pages on a folded piece of paper. Now copy the page and duplicate it so that you now have two identical pages, each with two rectangles. Delete the left rectangle on the first page and the right rectangle on the other page. One page will be the front page of your card, the other will be the inside page printed on the other side. Now you can make your design - a picture for the front, perhaps with some text, and some text for the inside, perhaps with a picture. Finally print the saved file one page at a time. Print page one, feed the paper in a second time facing in the same direction but turned over so the second side of the paper will print. The result should be a single piece of paper, printed on both sides so it can be folded to have a cover and an inside. Lesson 11