* Digital Art Basics
Articles, tutorials and projects covering the digital art basics categorized by subject. - * Article Index - Digital Art Basics - Digital Art and Design is a personally written site at BellaOnline Professional Printer Resolution and Color ... [... more]
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Digital Painting In Real Time - Digital Art and Design
In the past there has been a separation between the computer artist and the traditional artist due to the fact that creating art on the computer was so very different from creating art with traditional "real life" media. However more [... more]
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Fractal Art and Artists - Digital Art and Design
When most people think of digital art the first thing that comes to mind is web graphics because of the increasing popularity of the web. However, there are many forms of digital art and one of my favorites is fractal art. This is one type of ... [... more]
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How To Make Your Own Icons - Digital Art and Design
Icons are those little graphics that we click on to make something happen such as starting a program or opening a folder on your computer. You probably have some of these icons on your computer desktop. Maybe there is the familiar blue E that ... [... more]
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Image Resolution - Digital Art and Design
When you start a new image in a graphics program, you are asked to choose a resolution for your image. The resolution is the number of pixels (colored dots) that make up one inch. The number of pixels per inch (ppi) that you will use depends on ... [... more]
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NAIA - National Association of Independent Artists - ...
The National Association of Independent Artists is a non-profit, volunteer supported organization that has been helping artists for almost a decade. It was established in Chicago in 1995 by a group of Old Town Art Fair artists who recognized the ... [... more]
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National Association of Photoshop Professionals - NAPP - ...
Just as AdobeR PhotoshopR is the industry standard in graphic software, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is the membership organization for Photoshop users. Membership in NAPP is open to everyone from those new to Adobe ... [... more]
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pcCrafter and pcHugClub - Digital Art and Design
When the Internet first started, it was designed to be a text only medium. The idea of images on the web wasn't even considered. But now, only a few years later, graphics have become an important part of the web. Not only are web designers using ... [... more]
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Protecting Your Images With A Digital Watermark - ...
This past week a reader asked for advice about how to prevent people from stealing his web images of the comic books he is selling on eBayR. Unfortunately, I had to tell him that prevention is almost impossible but there are a few steps he could ... [... more]
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The Museum of Computer Art - MOCA - Digital Art and Design
The Museum of Computer Art (MOCA) is an online museum where you can find examples of many types of computer art. Don Archer and Bob Dodson co-founded MOCA in 1994. Since then the museum's collection has grown. As with most forms of art, the lines ... [... more]
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RGB Color Model
A color model is a method of describing color. There are five color models that you may work with in graphic software such as AdobeR IllustratorR. Which one you use depends on your project. This color model is used mainly to display color on a ... [... more]
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Vintage Halloween Art - Digital Art and Design
It's October and that means Halloween is not far away. When the weather starts to get chilly and the trees start showing those beautiful colors, I get inspired to try to capture the excitement of Halloween in my digital art. One of my favorite ... [... more]
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