Y6T1 Africa book covers

Create your own Africa book cover

• Now it’s your turn to be creative using what you have learned:
  • Choose a topic about Africa, eg wildlife, music, people, food, or something more specific eg a particular area The Sahara Desert, tribe, country, animal
  • Give it a title
  • Create a book cover for your book – use what you have learned about book cover designs from the examples.  Who is it designed for?  How does your design fit your reader?
  • ** Create the spine and back cover too – what features do these need?

W4 Fonts

• sans serif = without  horizontal lines, eg Arial
• serif = with horizontal lines, eg Times,
• Cool text https://cooltext.com/
• http://www.picturetopeople.org/text_generator/others/transparent/transparent-text-generator.html
• Find a font https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/result
• Online Paint https://jspaint.app/#local:153bdc677dbcf

Type some text

• Click on transparent mode  select text and copy (ctrl-c)
• In j2e5, paste (ctrl-v)
• Shift-drag to resize

W3  Decomposition, detail and pngs

DECOMPOSITION: breaking a problem down into smaller parts (that are easier to solve)

• Do one page element at a time
• Build images from shapes
• Keyword search for images

DETAIL: involves being resilient

• ZOOM 200% or 400% in bottom right of page
• TRACE objects then move them over

PNGS: images with transparent backgrounds

• JIT6 method
• Create a png https://onlinepngtools.com/create-transparent-png

W2  Flip an image

• Drag image onto j2e5 page – this adds it to your images
• Go to JIT5 paint – blank
• Click on “Animals” then my pictures (Blobby person)
• Click on image to make it a stamp
• Make it as big as the page  with the +
• Flip with the arrows <–>
• Click on the page to stamp the image on it
• Click “save a image” (top right of page) – this will add this flipped image to your pictures
• Go back to j2e5
• Pictures,  drag your new picture onto the page.

W2  Mask an image

• Select an image on your page
• At the top right, click rectangle and explore different shapes
• Once you have chosen a shape, you can drag it bigger,  smaller,  wider etc
• OR
• Draw shapes to mask an image then make them white
• Group the image and the white shapes to keep them together

W1 Find pictures

• Use several key words to search,  eg elephant sunset tree water silhouette
• Don’t keep scrolling – if you haven’t found it after 2/3 screens,  try different key words
• Use “similar images” in Google image search to get close to your image