A Book About Art on Computers

This is a book.
It is called "Digital Art."
It teaches art on computers.

A person named Kristen wrote it.
A person named Kelsey helped fix it up.

Grown-ups gave money to help make this book.
The money came from a school helper group.
But this book is not from the government.

You can share this book.
You can use parts of it.
You just have to say where it came from.
Say it came from a college called Lemoore.

Some pictures in the book are special.
Some pictures came from students.
Please do not copy those pictures.
Ask first if you want to use them.

The cover picture was made by a computer.
A computer program made the art.

Smart computer helpers helped make this book too.
One helper is called ChatGPT.
It helped write and organize the words.
One helper is called DALL-E.
It made pictures for the book.
One helper is called Grammarly.
It helped fix spelling and words.

What Is Inside This Book

Chapter 1: The Digital Art Revolution
This chapter tells what digital art is.
It tells how digital art started.
It tells why digital art matters.
It tells about making art today.

Chapter 2: Digital Art Foundations
This chapter shows how to set up a computer art studio.
It shows different art computer programs.
It talks about Adobe Cloud, a group of art programs.
It teaches about colors on screens.
It teaches about picture sharpness, called resolution.

Chapter 3: Web Wizards & Digital Sources
This chapter teaches searching for pictures online.
It teaches rules about using others' pictures.
It teaches about copyright, which means who owns art.
It teaches about using old art in new ways.

Chapter 4: File Organization for Creatives
This chapter teaches keeping computer art files neat.
It teaches saving and sharing your work.

Chapter 5: The Digital Design Process
This chapter teaches how to plan art.
It teaches new idea-making, called ideation.
It teaches design parts and rules.
It teaches how to arrange pictures well.

Lesson 1: Vector Graphics
This lesson uses a program called Adobe Illustrator.
It teaches making logos, which are symbol pictures.
It teaches a color-shape idea called Gestalt theory.
It has fun projects to try.
One project is making a funny new logo.

Lesson 2: Digital Photography
This lesson uses a program called Lightroom.
It teaches about photography.
It teaches the history of taking photos.