Beginning Photoshop

Adon is a longtime fan of Pokémon, he has a ton of cards and a few of the DS games. He loves coming up with his own Pokémon and imagining custom evolved versions of existing Pokémon. A couple of days ago he asked if he could use Photoshop to "draw" some of his creations... I held my breath a little; I would love to teach the boys Photoshop, but only if they really want to, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity.

Turns out what he really wanted to do was combine images of different Pokémon into new creations. Awesome! Love it. He started by searching the Web for images he wanted to use, and then we went back and forth for about an hour with "how to" questions.

"How do I color his hands a different color?"

"How do I make his head bigger?"

"How do I turn his eyes around?"

"How do I put his name on it?"

etc.

Once he figured out how to do one thing, he would come to a point in his composition where he needed to know how to do something else, and we'd go over it. Eventually, he was working on his own, and only asked for help very occasionally. Once in a while I'd show him the "easy" way as well as the "right" way to do things, and he could take it or leave it depending on what made the most sense to him.

The next day he said he had another idea, and went for it all by himself -- see below for his work!