![]() Sometimes they cannot or will not support your use of free software, particularly if it’s incidental to the course as opposed to the material itself. If anyone else is in a similar position, I encourage you to talk to your teacher about the software requirements. If I bring my own laptop and tablet loaded with the programs Krita and Inkscape, which are comparable to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator respectively, would it be possible to complete the assignments? I have experience with a wide variety of programs, including these, and I won’t require technical assistance to use them.Ī few hours later (!), I was pleasantly surprised to receive a response: it was okay! I know I’m going to learn a lot in this class, and I want to make sure I’m learning how to use a free program, so I’ll be able to use my skills when I make art on my own in the future. I realised during today’s introduction that this class is based around Photoshop, a proprietary program. I have a large number of programs under a free license and have been involved in a number of larger scale efforts for software freedom.įor these reasons, it’s ethically important to me to use free software when possible. Free software is software that anyone is free to use, study, modify, and redistribute. Outside of school, I’m an activist for free (libre) software (free as in freedom, not as in price). ![]() Maybe I’m not so great colouring between the lines, but I’m lot stronger behind a monitor! I’m looking forward to growing my skills in digital art this year. ![]() I’m excited for your Computer Graphics Art class. Once this became apparent on the first day of school, I sent an email to the teacher explaining my dilemma: The course description available online was sufficiently vague that I did not know beyond a reasonable doubt that it was focused on proprietary software. ![]() I had a reference that I went off of for the main lights and shadows, and the rest was just manual blending (going over areas with a 50% opacity brush, picking whatever color that resulted in, using it with the brush, rinse and repeat), which I had never done before and haven't been able to replicate since.I enrolled in “Computer Graphics Art”, a Photoshop class at my secondary school.
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