1. Press a key or mouse button to continue BGS Racing Year 7

2. Press a key or mouse button to continue BGS Racing Beverley Grammar School is going to be running two cars in the 2012 Formula One Grand Prix. Our team is going to be called BGS Racing. You have been left in charge of every aspect and have been asked to make it a success.

3. Press a key or mouse button to continue BGS Racing You have lots of interesting and exciting ideas and want to use the IT skills you have to help. To do this you have to create some new documents in order to raise money and help the team.

4. Press a key or mouse button to continue BGS Racing As you will see, the cars carry many logos… (Click to play)Click to play

5. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET First, lets find out how to use PAINT.NET Have a look at the ICTweb, SOFTWARE section, PAINT.NET for lots of help!

6. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET You MUST try the program out! Can you find out what the tools do? LAYERS – this is a way of building up an image in sections… one layer at a time Follow the next slides Follow the next slides and create the picture shown…

7. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Use the PAINT BUCKET and fill the background blue Then click on LAYERS, then click NEW LAYER

8. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Select the rectangular drawing tool Select green Select the DRAW FILLED SHAPE option Draw the green rectangle See, it is shown on layer 2 (The “Background” is layer 1) Add another NEW LAYER

9. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Use the PAINTBRUSH tool Set the BRUSH WIDTH to somewhere between 10 and 15 Add some trees to the new layer! Add another NEW LAYER

10. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Select the PRIMARY colour as dark green Select the SECONDARY colour as blue to match the sky Select FILL as 75% “Spray” on the leaves Add another NEW LAYER

11. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Using the RECTANGLE tool, LINE tool, FILL tool you can create the house on one layer! (You could use a layer for the bricks, then a layer for the windows etc!) No CLOUDS! Click on the BACKGROUND layer

12. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET PRIMARY is white, SECONDARY is grey Select the PAINTBRUSH Select 20% Use the LEFT mouse button and then the RIGHT mouse button and spray on the clouds! You will see you CAN’T destroy the trees because they are on a different layer!

13. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Now to make it look a bit better using EFFECTS On the BACKGROUND layer, use this GAUSSIAN BLUR to blend the clouds Move to LAYER 3 and do the same for the trees!

14. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET Now go to LAYER 3 with the trees Select the EFFECT for UNFOCUS to take the trees out of focus

15. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET SAVE IT! Now we will save it again as a JPG You will have to select FLATTEN as you save it! Then I want you to INSERT this picture (JPG) into a WORD document… does it look ok?

16. Press a key or mouse button to continue See how the clouds and trees look now…

17. Press a key or mouse button to continue PAINT.NET You can do better than this though! Have a go… Try the different effects…

18. Press a key or mouse button to continue BGS RACING Now you can use PAINT.NET, you have to make the new logo for BGS RACING Make it good! Make it stand out! Use layers to build it up! Make it be for a F1 team!!