Welcome to Day ONE!

Today we have a special Complimentary Webinar. The live event will be limited to 100 people. Or guests will be a secret…..Nah just kidding.

We are very blessed to have present for us Author and Promoter Daryl Wise.

For the past 15 years, Daryl has worked as owner/operator of StreetWise PR, a small public relations and marketing firm near Silicon Valley. Some clients include or have included: Macworld Expos, the artist Peter Max, HP, Ambient Design, Adesso, Pixelmator, Gluon and e frontier.

He was director of the Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival for three years and is a member of Cabrillo College’s Digital Arts Advisory Committee. He is the author of Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists (Wiley) as well as Secrets of Poser Experts (Course Technology PTR).

His new book The Secrets of Corel Painter Experts has just been released.

Also joining us will be Brian Haberlin. Brian is has been a professional artist for 30 years and is the
co-creator of the popular Witchblade comic, and has worked as an artist on most of the top comics published at one time or another.

Brian Haberlin is an artist and writer working in most entertainment mediums from film to comics. Haberlin is known as the innovator and creator of most of the modern production and computer art methods used in the comic industry today. He has created many comic books properties, including Stone, Aria, Hellcop, Area 52 and many others.

He writes for 3dWorld Magazine, teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and through his company Digitalarttutorials.com. And is currently creating new graphic novels for his company Anomaly Productions that will be coming out in 2011.

The webinar date was:

Thursday,December16th 5PM CST, 2010.

You can watch the streaming video at: http://digitalartacademy.na5.acrobat.com/p79886974/

Daryl will also gave away a free book. We drew names from the folks who were on live. Our winner is: Mary Ann!

Digital Artist and the Firesheep Hack

Hi All-I know this post is a tad off kilter from what we normally have here but…..I thought it would be helpful for those of you that utilize wireless in public places like I do. Also I assumed that most folks have heard or seen this. But just in case you haven’t heard of the “Firesheep” hack, this will give you some basic info.

Here’s a quick video at YouTube about the need for laptop wireless security and how easy it is for someone to break into your accounts if you aren’t protected accordingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ahhTnLsIRo

Harry scary huh? In less than 5 minutes, the problem is explained and several fixes are offered.

If you don’t watch it, you’ll miss how easy it is for someone to hack your Facebook, Google or Twitter account (or others). You’ll also miss how easy it is to fix. Don’t worry, one solution won’t cost you a dime.

Photoshop Elements 8 – Intro, Quick Fix, Guided Edit

New class at Digital Art Academy to be taught by Melinda Hartong!

Learn Photoshop Elements 8
Photoshop Elements – jump in and get your feet wet. This “little sister” version of big brother Photoshop has TONS of hidden tricks up her sleeve. In this class, we’ll cover getting started with Quick as well as Guided Edit options.

Never fear, there are a TON of things you can do with this inexpensive photo editing software you never thought possible!
Super-duper possibilities:
•shortcut keys to save you time & effort
•Correct color – fix wrong color balance & skin tones
•Correct contrast – save highlight & shadow details!
•Make Blue skies & colors pop
•Remove Red Eyes, touching up blemishes
•Critical info on saving your photos!
•Sharpening – overdoing it is easy. Subtle is key!
•quick selection tool – breaking it down!
•recompose tool & scene cleaner -

•Web photo galleries

These will totally knock your socks off! So worth the price of admission! Learn Photoshop Elements here.

Digital Paint Magazine on The Ipad

Friend, techno wizard, master painter and overall great guy, John Derry, shared this image with me a few days ago. It has been hectic in the last few days so I havent had the opportunity to get it put up.

John pulled up Digital Paint Magazine on the Ipad and took a quick snap. Looks cool huh?  I gotta have one.

John Derry shows Digital Paint Magazine on the Ipad

Thanks for sharing John!