Photoshop alternative for use on Chromebooks
Play with color, line, shape, space, scale, balance (symmetry), unity, pattern. Use your elements and principles of art language to peer critique when done. Share on Social media or with family!
SketchUp for Schools is free. Log in with your school gmail account.
Why not redesign the school, our classroom, or your house and bedroom?
Fort Vancouver Regional Library also offers Lynda.com courses for free with library card.
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Fort Vancouver Regional Library also offers Lynda.com courses for free with library card.
Lynda.com is a top notch tutorial service for digital art products like SketchUp, Photoshop, Photography, Video, 3D effects, Animation, Design.
Create a pattern and then download/print off a full sheet or a cool paper-craft fold-up pyramid. Maybe string them together of build a sculpture out of them!
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FREE open source "Photoshop" Image manipulation and Digital painting.
Save every 20 minutes.
Looks familiar to Photoshop and skills transfer well.
Tons of Gimp tutorial sites.
FREE version of Illustrator. Vector based art. Good for logos and drawing.
Save often.
Tons of tutorials online.
AutoDesk Sketchbook is FREE as well.
Search for tutorial on use!
3D Sculpting and 3D painting.
Start with the tutorials.
older program, might work on your system, might not.
Here are some tutorials to help with Procreate.
Adobe Creative Cloud for Students.
Make the leap with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get 20+ apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
(not required for class, just leaving this here.)
*also, Adobe is offering the "home" version of cloud for free to those schools that have Adobe CC. We unfortunately do not have the CC version, we have CS6. Therefore we do not fall into that benefit.
Adobe SPARK is free. You can use it to create lots of different things! Check it out. You can create webpages, Facebook or IG banners and layouts, integrate text and photos, create inspiring posters, cards, youtube banners! Here is a web PAGE I made using it.
My Pinterest boards...
Here is where most of my ideas come from. I have to admit, Most pins are on the ART Class Pinterest Board and I am slowing categorizing them onto the Photoshop and Illustrator Pages.
So look through the Art Class page because there is inspiration there and lots of digital stuff.