Big Huge Labs

This is another FREE source to do fun and creative things with pictures.

When you get to the website http://bighugelabs.com/ you have a number of options. Many of the options do not require joining any other site, but some do (i.e. flikr). So, do some experimenting before you ask students to try it out.

You can

• make a motivational poster

• Magazine cover

• Movie poster

• Trading card

• Captioner

• Billboard

These allow you to take an image and then through their simple step by step process you add additional text.

There also are some fun picture related tools including

• color palette generator

• bead art

To create the image you simply select which thing you want to do. I am going to show the picture captioner.

First select where the picture is. If it is saved on your computer, select browse and upload the picture.

You then can type in what will be in your speech bubble or thought bubble. Then when you click create, you are able to move all the bubbles around to create your image. You then can save it, edit it, or print it.

Google Images

Did you know that Google Image can do great advance searching options to help you more quickly find a picture or image that you need?
How to get there- 1. Go to Google. 2. Click on the images link. 3. Click on Advanced Searching Options.

You can type in your search words. In your search you could specify color or size.
You can also specify the content type: any content, news content, faces, photo content, clip art, and line drawings.

You can determine the size or aspect ratio. You can also determine the type of files (jpg, gif, png, bmp). You can also determine if an image is black and white or color.

You can also filter pictures by the use/copyright that is allowed with them. If you encourage students to use “labeled for commercial use with modification” you are able to use it and could sell it and change the image if you wanted to.
In all the three picture examples, I searched for "yellow bird" and did so with photo, clip art, and line drawing. If you have a very specific image in mind, this can be an easy way to filter what you are looking at to more quickly get what you want.