DIGITAL ART
DIGITAL ART Online High School Course
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
Course Overview
This Art/Graphic Design course offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop. The seven chapters we cover will build a powerful foundation that encompasses all the essential skills necessary to move forward to advanced and professional-level challenges. The word ‘foundation’ is key to Photoshop, because ultimately being “good” at Photoshop entails mastering hundreds of small concepts and techniques, keeping them all in your head at one time, and calling upon them when needed. That’s as genuine a definition of “working in Photoshop” as you will find, and it speaks to the importance of taking the time to explore and understand and master all the “basic” techniques we will cover. All lessons build logically and deliberately in terms of skill. Therefore, there’s an expectation placed upon the student to learn the skills from one lesson thoroughly so that they can be used in the next lesson. By the midpoint of the course, you will be amazed at how much you have learned and how much you are able to get Photoshop to do what you want it to do. You will end the course with usable skills and genuine understanding of the world’s most powerful image manipulation software program.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
To learn all the essential tools in the program and how they are used to manipulate images.
To make selections, move pixels, and change the color of pixels throughout an image.
To work effectively with layers and layered artwork.
To incorporate layer masks, layer styles, and clipped layers into your skill set.
To work with type, typography, and gradients.
To incorporate blending modes for special effects.