The schoolzone evaluation

Scaler and Croppitt is a simple, easy to use program, which enables you to scale and crop digital images. It has five simple steps to enable you to; crop unwanted parts of a digital picture and save the new image without resizing, crop and/or resize a digital picture to suit a special location or purpose, convert digital pictures from one format to another.

The software is not aimed at a specific age, but it is very simple to use and could enable young children to be introduced to the manipulation of digital images. In particular, enabling the children to manipulate images they have taken of their own work for publication on a school web site or printing via another application for display in school.

It can be used in the classroom to; introduce simple photo manipulation skills, prepare graphic material for other software and modify pictures for web page use. The simple five-step format makes it easy to follow and enables a beginner to navigate the whole process successfully.

This software could be used across the curriculum in any subject where using digital pictures might enhance the children's learning. It would be a useful tool in a classroom that has access to a digital camera and is simple enough for a novice teacher to use with their children.

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