Digital Media
Adobe TV
At Adobe TV you can access tutorials for all the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, Premiere, XD etc. The following link specifically focuses on Photoshop. Find what you want, download the files and follow along with the video tutorial.
Russell Preston Brown
Russell Brown is Senior Creative Director at Adobe. These tutorials are concise, informative and entertaining to say the least.
Julieanne Kost
Julieanne Kost is an Adobe Evangelist for Lightroom and Photoshop. Her tutorials focus on innovative ways to use these programs.
Adobe Education Exchange
“The Adobe Education Exchange helps ignite creativity in classrooms worldwide by connecting educators through professional development opportunities, teaching resources and peer-to-peer collaboration”.
To access content and courses on the Exchange simply register:
Professional Development opportunities
Lynda.com
Ensure that you have Lynda.com on your DoE Portal Essentials.
Adobe Create Magazine
Other things to investigate
R E W I R E D
Course Overviews
Art Theory & Case Studies
The STAGESIX site specifically addresses Critical and Historical Studies for Preliminary & HSC students.
Resources
Photo Editing
Darktable is an open source RAW photo editor.
A powerful and free (open source) standalone RAW editor, that provides additional sought after features such as tone mapping, luminosity masking and focus stacking. A more than viable alternative for students and teachers who do not have access to Lightroom.
Affinity Photo for iPad
Digital Painting & Drawing
Procreate
Brushes Redux
“Mr. Hockney uses the Brushes app, a stylus and a digital inkjet printer that takes 20 minutes to print each large page. He’s known for drawing and painting outdoors, and the iPad has simplified that process. It has also raised questions among critics about whether iPad drawings qualify as art........”
Hockney began using the Brushes app in late 2008. This article in The Telegraph (British) offers a good insight into Hockney’s reasons for choosing to work digitally.
Harmony Procedural Drawing
This is a browser based procedural drawing app. Great for mobile devices and tablets: No stylus required. However if accessed from a desktop you will have to use a mouse or connect a Wacom or similar.
‘Paper’ by WeTransfer
Sketch Club
FILMIC PRO
For the serious mobile videographers.
Other Mobile Apps
Other Worlds
Processing is a data visualisation software. Make art using data / code. Great for those with a head for coding. It’s powerful and it’s free.
“Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping. Why not you and your students?
Examples
Get it
Terragen
Blender
Lightroom & Beyond for Photographers
Desktop applications
CGI / Animation
The following software are reasonably high end applications. However most DoE units will manage the demands with ease.
You never know what’s around the corner
Contact -|- gary.poulton@det.nsw.edu.au
Credits:
Headpiece: artworks Ex Di Medeci @ Penrith Regional Gallery.