About the course

 The internet has enabled us to communicate thoughts and ideas in unforeseeable ways. Originally created to transfer basic data, the "web" was not originally pepared for rich media. Now ideas and thoughts can be conveyed not only throught text and audio, but through visual multimedia as well and terms such as "YouTube", "myspace" and "Flickr" are becoming household terms.

While this new media allows us to publish content that is accessible globally, the use of visual materials increases while the proper application is not well understood by non professionals.

This course is designed to prepare not only artists to properly deploy visual media for the internet and other digital media, but any person who will be faced with presenting visual ideas. This could be teachers, presenters or any other professionals.

In this course you will learn to use basic tools found in digital editing software while applying them to achieve certain design goals. Additionally you will face other realistic constraints such as limited canvas space, target resolutions, color limitations and other challenges.

The intent is to teach very basic, cross platform, techniques while encouraging creativity in the digital, visual media. The techniques you will learn here are standard techniques used everytime an image is being prepared for publication.

We purposely do not focus on print media. The intent of this course is to address the broader spectrum of digital media because of the different requirements and skills necessary for successful implementation.

Just as dirty shoes or clothes will give a bad impression during a job interview, poor graphic deployment says alot about the artist and his or her skills. Make sure that you put the same care into the preparation of your digital media as you would your own appearance.