Students will explore various programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Pagemaker, Bryce, Poser, Lightwave, and Microsoft Powerpoint. Students will create their own images from sketched ideas, legally shared clip art pages or digital images taken with a digital camera. The curriculum includes the process of creating fine art images and creating and keeping records while working on commercial advertising art images. The emphasis is on originality, use of space, and elements and principles of art.

Students will be encouraged to write about art criticism and the effects computers have on society.

(9 weeks, .5 credit)

This course is designed to build on the foundations of creating digital art from the prerequisite course Digital Imaging 1. This course will expand student learning through more advanced techniques, projects, and tools using Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Cloud programs. Students will learn advanced editing of digital images, digital painting, and work on higher level Graphic/Commercial Design projects. As the culminating activity, students will work on a mastery project of their choosing through preapproved options or an independent proposal. Assignments will focus on the development of higher-level computer graphics skills that can be used in the fields of graphic design, web design, video game design, social media, digital photography, and multimedia through a series of specific visual design problems.  Digital Imaging 2 will be a 9-week course which meets one block daily for .5 credit.  Potentially, it may also become an A/B Day course. Prerequisite: Digital Imaging 1, grade C or better.