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or Grade 12
Also see Digital Photography
Also: Animation / Graphic Design
OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL ART
Software:
Google Drawing Tool
Pixlr Editor
Photoshop Elements
GIMP
Primsa: phone app - for photo editing with lots of filters
Aristo app: free video editor with art filters, photo effects, etc.
IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN
Instead of Photoshop, try Gimp
Instead of Lightroom, try paint.net
Instead of Illustrator, try Inkscape
Instead of InDesign, try Canva or Scribus - Good for Graphic design, too
Krita is online digital illustration and painthttps://krita.org/en/
Kleki: https://kleki.com/
Gravit: https://designer.gravit.io/
Sumopaint:https://www.sumopaint.com/
FireAlpaca :https://firealpaca.com/
IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE (Animation and Video)
Instead of Premiere, try Davinci Resolve
Instead of Animate/Flash, try Opentoonz or Blender
Instead of After Effects, try Wax, Blender, or Fusion
Cacani might not be free?https://cacani.sg/?v=7516fd43adaa
Toon Boom Harmony
9 Best Free Animation
Pencil 2D https://www.pencil2d.org/
Openshothttps://www.openshot.org/
MovieMaker Online https://moviemakeronline.com/
Review of Freeware Video Editing
IF YOU BUILD WEBSITES OR SOFTWARE
Instead of Dreamweaver, Spark, or XD alternatives: WIX, Weebly or wordpress.com, or wordpress.org
IF YOU DO STUFF THAT REQUIRES THESE OTHER PROGRAMS
Instead of Audition, try Audacity
Instead of Acrobat Pro, try Foxit Reader or PDF Escape
Instead of INCOPY, try LOVING YOURSELF AND USING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE (WHO USES THIS???)
IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS OR FONTS
Instead of Adobe Stock, try Pexels, Unsplash, or Pixabay
Instead of Adobe Fonts, try Google Fonts or Dafont
BONUS: If you need Free music or sound effects, try YouTube Audio Library, Soundbible
Fonts: FontSquirrel
Other
Pic Collage
PART FIVE
TYPE PORTRAITS
Can be done in Illustrator, using type tool and tools under it. (Type along a path, area fill), warp and mesh tool.
PART SIX
Create a digital vision board.
Choose a topic or create a board for a future career or life.
Create a folder and gather up images. Keep track of sources in a Google Doc or Word file.
Alternative: create an image using Photoshop, Gimp or PIXLR by dragging images into layers, resizing, cropping.
PART SEVEN
The 12 Days of Photoshop Challenge
Art Ed Guru?
Free or Low Cost Alternatives to Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, a 'lite' version of Photoshop, can be purchased at a discount if you are a student. Other free alternatives are below:
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SumoPaint An excellent on-line image editor with layers, filter effects and lots of Photoshop type tools.
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Paint.NET Paint.NET has many of the same features as Photoshops, along with a user community and tutorials.
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GIMP GIMP also has many of the same features as Photoshop including layers and tools, and it can work in Photoshop format.
- VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor A handy photo editor with the usual tools such as cropping and adjustments. Includes a video tutorial.
- PhotoScape Less features than Photoshop but easier to use for those features that it does have.
- Picassa Lets your organize and perform basic edits to your images.
- Picnik An on-line photo editor with basic editing functions and a few more advanced ones such including filter effects.
- Pixlr - use the Editor version
- Google SketchUp
- Blender - Free and Open 3D creation software
- Augment - Augmented reality - free app to upload 3D models (register an education account)
- Sculptris - http://pixologic.com/sculptris/
Digital Art Galleries
Tutorials & Software
Refer to Digital Photography page for tutoria list
Look for tutorials on YouTube
Links to 3D computer graphics on Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/arttech2/3d-computer-graphics/
and on Symbaloo http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/3dmodeling2
Google Drawings - EDU in 90 video: https://youtu.be/Vj8l0Qf9oGE
Painting with Digital Light: https://www.denissmith.com.au/tutorials/?fbclid=IwAR0kBOJ3QDU01q-As0ZrA2GQ97huLF1tsz9hic7iPLlv55MoJP9Gs0rkYFM
Animation by The Helpful Art Teacher: https://www.facebook.com/groups/270334306660997/permalink/940944832933271/
Making Cinemagraphs - A cinemagraph is basically a video that plays beneath a still image, to create the effect of part of the picture moving - https://artprof.org/courses/cinemagraphs/
EXCELLENT GOOGLE DOC on Digital Art
Shared on Hyperdocs.co
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AW53UA1KL8aXPy7ndX96z-DlDQTSx6SuSTbdFca6WoY/edit#slide=id.g487f08383a_2_24
Real World Applications
Stencils that are printed onto shirts
Anaglyphs and 3D glasses
Designed products, playing cards, candles, soaps, bottles
School Posters
Magazine or book covers
Wrapping paper and matching tags
Plushy stuffed monsters - designed in illustrator, printed on canvas, stuffed and sewed (leave border around image)
Business cards
Personal logos
Read posters for National library week
Event poster
Travel brochure
Album covers
Memes
Graduation party invitations
Famiy crest
Trading cards
Design and paint mural



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