*Digi Design Academy*

Have you thought of trying your hand at designing?
With information utilizing Both Photoshop (7+) and Paint Shop Pro
this course should help you achieve your dream!


Due to the extensive information supplied in this course NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN AT ANY TIME.

Sessions are ongoing and are completed 'at your own pace' (with a suggested time frame of 8 weeks)

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in the course :

-Lessons detailing ways to verify the quality, detail accuracy
-and legal copyright of all your available resources.
-(including resources from your computer, 'found' and purchased tools)
-Industry Standards
-File types and Saving sizes
-Copyrighted Items and Fonts and Piracy
-Checking your tools
-Quality Control
-Creating a TOU ,antipiracy ad, visual TOU
-Standard Product Packaging and Logo Creation
-Color theory and color palettes
-Making sure that your monitor correctly adjusted
-Defining your style,
-Finding Inspiration
-suggested creative areas to explore
-Essential items for a good kit
-Preview Making
-Product Packaging and Logo Creation
-Kit naming and standard file naming
-Product pricing
-Writing a product description
-Blogging 101
-Promoting your Designs through all available means
-(Creative Teams, and all other advertising areas)
-Creating 'blinkies' and banners
-Basic design principles for the following items:
-creating a brush
-creating a pattern
-creating a texture
creating an overlay
-making a paper using all of these techniques
-creating some standard basic elements and the
-basic techniques of creation that can be applied to create
-hundreds of others
-Critique and limited one on
-one coaching is available
-creating a kit from beginning to end
-with critique using all lessons applied
-FTP basics
-applying to a store

additionally we provide:

-Online Question Center Forum for each lesson
-Online lesson review quizzes,
-multiple opportunities for student interaction
-student blogs through DDA
-Numerous links to online resources available to assist you as a designer

-1 hour weekly live video chats for discussion and Q&A. are held through www.yugma.com and are also included in the purchase price. These screen sharing video chats show me working within photoshop CS3 and discussing various design topics with attendees and often bonus advanced design instruction.

- A CU friendly freebie is also given weekly as an attendance gift. Chats take place on Thursdays 7-8pm EST  (we're currently working on video taping these as well to have a video library available on the academy site.)

-Extra free one on one tutoring is available by e-mail request to me using either SKype or Yugma