Welcome to Our Digital Art Course for Homeschoolers: Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business

Getting Started with Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Homeschool Course

This digital art course introduces homeschool teens to the world of possibilities for putting their artistic and creative skills to work online in any number of fields. Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business covers the rules governing images, where to find them, how to edit and manipulate images, fonts and word art, logos and banner ads, product design, and more.

Please note: Students need access to Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6, or CC (which requires a membership) for this course. CC has the most updated tools. The teacher is currently using CS5.  Lightroom is not required. Please contact us with any questions.

Overview

• 36 lessons
• Includes downloadable lessons, videos, and activities
• Grades: 7-12

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research; access to Photoshop C54, C55, C56, or CC. (All of these require a membership.) Lightroom is not required. This is not included with your membership to SchoolhouseTeachers.com.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and course outline. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Course

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Lesson 3: Graphic Designer Wages

Activity: Image Size and Compression Guide

Have you ever heard the expression, “Don’t muzzle the ox”? It’s another important standard in life and in the world of freelance design that I would like to address. What we’re talking about here is strengthening your morale, taking care of your needs, fueling your interest, and even finding energy as you work on professional projects over time. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. What it really covers is compensation—being paid for your time, your skill level, and the extra effort in what you produce.

While most believers are very charitable and giving, they too have needs; they all need to eat, drink, have shelter over their heads and pay their bills. So, at some point in time, they have to be compensated for the work they provide. Even Paul addresses the human need for workers to be compensated, whether on the missionary field, at home with the kids, on the job miles away, or even in the living room on the computer doing cool digital art projects (wink). We all need some form of compensation.

Deuteronomy 25:4 (NKJV) – “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”

1 Corinthians 9:9 (NKJV) – “For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.”

Let’s keep in mind that this course is directed at the prospect of helping you design products for small business purposes, whether you want to learn how to create products to sell or how to provide graphic design services for hire on an hourly wage basis.

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