Year 4 Photo editing worksheet

“Changing digital images” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 computing unit “Photo editing”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 25 to 30 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Changing digital images

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Computing · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain what editing a digital image means and name three tools for it.

A Look back3 min

1.
The robot starts at the top left. How many squares must it move right to reach the star?
2.
Look at the steps. Circle the step that goes in the last empty box.
Tap the photoRotate itSave a copyPrint the table
3.
Circle the arrows that take the robot from the top left to the star without touching a rock.
↓ ↓→ ↓ ↓ ←→ → ↓ ↓

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola's photo of her dog came out sideways. Here is how she fixes it.

A tilted tablet showing a brown dog on grass, with a curved turn arrow.

Watch me

The photo is sideways.

Rotate turns the image around a central point.

Now the dog is the right way up.

Now you

1.
Mia's photo has a bus at the far edge. She wants only the park. Circle the tool she should use.
rotatecroprecolour

C Your turn6 min

Read each photo problem. Circle the tool, or number the steps.

1.
A photo is upside down. Which tool turns it the right way up? Circle it.
rotatecroprecolour
2.
A photo has too much sky at the top. Which tool removes the sky? Circle it.
rotatecroprecolour
3.
Sam wants his holiday photo in black and white. Which tool should he use? Circle it.
rotatecroprecolour
4.
Number these steps from 1 to 4 to crop a photo, first to last.
1. Save a copy of the cropped photo
2. Open the photo
3. Drag the edges inwards
4. Choose crop

Say it out loud: What changed in each photo, and what did the tool do to it?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A tablet shows a brown dog; a thin cut-off strip of it lies beside.

Ali says: “This photo of a dog is just how the camera took it. Nobody has changed it.”

1.
The strip beside the tablet was cut from this photo. Why is Ali wrong? Write one sentence.

E Think deeper4 min

A wide park photo beside a close-up of a brown dog cut from the same photo

1.
One photo shows a small dog in a wide park with trees and a path. The other is cropped to show only the dog. Which one makes the dog look more important? Explain how cropping changes this.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Changing digital images · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 2

2. Save a copy If your child circles Print the table, ask what the photo needs before it is kept safe. Then point to the last box.

3. → ↓ ↓ ← If your child circles ↓ ↓, the robot would hit the rock. Ask which square is blocked and go around it.

B

1. crop If your child circles rotate, ask whether the park needs turning. Rotate turns the whole picture, so the bus would still be there.

C

1. rotate If your child circles crop, ask whether the picture has turned. Crop removes edges. It does not turn the picture.

2. crop If your child circles rotate, ask what happens to the sky. Rotate turns the whole picture, so the sky is still there.

3. recolour If your child circles crop, ask what is being removed. Crop cuts away parts. Here nothing is cut away, only the colours change.

4. 1 Open the photo · 2 Choose crop · 3 Drag the edges inwards · 4 Save a copy of the cropped photo

D

1. Look for: Says the photo has been changed, for example cropped, so it is not how the camera first took it. If your child agrees with Ali, point to the cut-off strip. Ask what happened to the photo before Ali saw it.

E

1. Look for: Names the close-up version and explains that cropping removes the other things, so the dog stands out more.

Words to use

Say“What did the crop cut away, and why might someone choose to do that?”

Instead of“Tell them the photo is the real thing, so there is nothing to think about.”

After the sheet

Take a family photo on a phone or tablet. Hold a piece of paper over one side of the screen, then talk about what the photo shows with that part cut away.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Recolouring photos with effects(with a plan)
Cloning Picture Patches(with a plan)
Choosing the right tool(with a plan)
Plan first, then make(with a plan)
Two stars and a wish(with a plan)

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