Week LXXII

French Textbook

I think this might be the main thing I worked on all week. Of course, there was a lot of the photo sourcing spreadsheets that were featured on other people’s blogs. But I got to do something else this week – photo editing.

2.4 & 2.5

So, calendars… that’s something that’s hard to come by on stock photo sites. Or at least, most of them look like this:

Not the most readable example for a vocab lesson. The old lesson used screenshots of proprietary calendar softwares, so my job was to make replacements. I started with these 3 photos.

They had a few issues still. The English labeling, mostly, the lack of Saturdays for one, and the branch blocking the other.

For some variants, I actually had to edit the days of the month.

The year calendar was the easiest edit, just using clone stamp. The month names were already in boxes in the PPT file, and the weekday abbreviations from Spanish are the same as French.

This one wasn’t for a specific date, and could have been any calendar photo, but I liked it enough to edit in the proper names and a whole new column from scratch.

5.1

Remember the Beirut slides? I might have covered them on here. Well, a lot came from Wikimedia and need to be replaced. About half. Exactly 12/25 actually, which I know because I made a new tracking sheet just for these city image slides:

It looks like someone’s already added their own tabs to it.