You need to set up folders on your laptop and also Drive to store your photography files in. 

• You will store images on your laptop.

• The drive folders are your back up of all images in case you loose your work or your laptop gets damaged. 

• Imagery will be uploaded to your website from your laptop files. 

• Contact sheets and proposals (pdf files) must be added from Shared folder on Drive. 

IMPORTANT - You need to make sure that the folder you create your Photography folder is not in icloud or onedrive. 

Keeping your folder with the computer syncing backup installed will cause you to not be able to complete tasks or find your work.

You will back up all your photographs on google drive so using icloud and onedrive is not needed

Photographic Website Google Sites for E-Portfolios ​

We have found that Google education offers the best free online website software for students wishing to document their ideas and work as a website, which is both cheap (its free) and quick to maintain. Google sites also links with Drive so it is easier to upload your photographic work.

Your website will be disabled by your teacher once an assessment is handed in, which means that it can not be edited anymore and can only be viewed.  Your website will be deleted at the end of the following school year.  

You will create a Google website to record your ideas and learning (see below for specific information of how to do this) 

Template of student website

You will begin by copying a template of a website to use. Follow the instructions in the slideshow below.

Please use this example as a guide for creating your own, and make the site individual with your own photo's. ​ 

As you begin working you must:

Replace the stock imagery with your own

Make sure you have the website feedback pages set up correctly as this allows your teacher to give you comments when looking through your work.

Your website will contain the following:

RESEARCH: 

Technical information

Works of artists

Your topic/theme

Any other information you feel is significant or relevant

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT: should show an articulate and readable visual design process to include investigations of:

Ideas

Inspiration from artist models and application to own work

Photographic shoots

Experiments and solutions

Techniques and processes

Other relevant development work

Annotations explaining what you are thinking and critiquing your work

Contact sheets

Folio spreads

As part of being enrolled in the Photography course the school will upload software for the year to your laptop. This will happen during the first few weeks of Term 1. Further below are the instructions for how to install the software on your computer.

An alternative to the Adobe products  (partically Photosop) is the use of Gimp freeware software http://www.gimp.org/ or https://www.photopea.com/ an online photo editor. Affinity has also been developed however this is a paid for software. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/#top

All are similar to Adobe software

There are also other freeware alternatives that can also be used.