Image Editing and Creations

As a science teacher, I don't get to use editing programs as often as I would like in the classroom.  When we use the computers, it is usually for research or virtual labs.  I felt like a kid in a candy store while finding my way through the different imaging websites listed in the "sandbox". 
The original image is below:

This image was released by the National Human Genome Research Institute, an agency part of the National Institutes of Health, accessed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Double_Helix_by_NHGRI.jpg Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

  The first site I used was picmonkey.com.  I used a DNA image from the NHGRI because DNA is blueprint of all life, and as a science teacher, I could teach about DNA for an entire year!  (But Standards of Learning dictate that I teach 13 other standards in addition to DNA!).  There are so many applications for picmonkey in my science class, such as taking pictures on a nature walk of different plants and then creating new images from them in the program.  I saturated the colors of the DNA image and sharpened it.  You can see the results below:

This work is a derivative of the image released by the National Human Genome Research Institute, an agency part of the National Institutes of Health, accessed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Double_Helix_by_NHGRI.jpg Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

I next visited bighugelabs.com next and immediately wanted to try the "pop art" option!  I used my original DNA image and created a 4-panel pop art image in the "cool colors" option.  I could see my students using this program to help visualize vocabulary words.  See my masterpiece below:

This work is a derivative of the image released by the National Human Genome Research Institute, an agency part of the National Institutes of Health, accessed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Double_Helix_by_NHGRI.jpg Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

I used imagechef.com  to create the next image.  I found this program harder to use because it seemed that every time I clicked on an arrow to advance to the next page, it opened another program, such as creating a website.  Once I followed the links more closely, I was able to see my options.  I really liked the "newspage" idea and used that one below.  I could see my students using this program to create front page news ideas about specific scientists or discoveries.

This work is a derivative of the image released by the National Human Genome Research Institute, an agency part of the National Institutes of Health, accessed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Double_Helix_by_NHGRI.jpg Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)