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Students should be capable of placing and modifying images, ensuring precise placement, resizing images while maintaining or altering their aspect ratio, cropping, rotating, and flipping images either horizontally or vertically. They should also be able to adjust the brightness and contrast of images, as well as group and layer images, which includes grouping, ungrouping, and adjusting their order in relation to one another. Additionally, students must understand how to reduce file size by lowering image resolution or color depth.

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Cambridge IGCSE Information and Communication TechnologyImages

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Students should be capable of placing and modifying images, ensuring precise placement, resizing images while maintaining or altering their aspect ratio, cropping, rotating, and flipping images either horizontally or vertically. They should also be able to adjust the brightness and contrast of images, as well as group and layer images, which includes grouping, ungrouping, and adjusting their order in relation to one another. Additionally, students must understand how to reduce file size by lowering image resolution or color depth

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  • You need to be able to students should be capable of placing and modifying images, ensuring precise placement, resizing images while maintaining or altering their aspect ratio, cropping, rotating, and flipping images either horizontally or vertically. They should also be able to adjust the brightness and contrast of images, as well as group and layer images, which includes grouping, ungrouping, and adjusting their order in relation to one another. Additionally, students must understand how to reduce file size by lowering image resolution or color depth.
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Image Modification Tasks

A student needs to prepare images for a presentation. They must resize images without distortion, crop unnecessary parts, and adjust brightness for better visibility.

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    Explain how resizing an image while maintaining aspect ratio helps avoid distortion.

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