1. Students will get comfortable with Adobe Photoshop
2. Students learn what different tools and floating palettes do
3. Students learn detail about the layers palette
4. Students learn how to control the Brushes settings
5. Students will learn about blend modes related to paint opacity
6. Students will learn how to "cut out" a photographs with "digital scissors" and  "digitally glue" it together
7. Students will learn how to transform and distort and image.
8. Students will become confident at combining images together and manipulating them into an art based image

I have taught Digital Photography Summer Camps for older kids & teens for the last 7 years. I also teach Photoshop & Advanced Photoshop  in the Digital Media Department of a California Community college setting for high school & college age groups each semester during the school year, as well as a modified for kids version of a similar illustration class as a Summer Camp for jr.high age group - highschool. 

My personal experience is that I am a professional artist & also enjoy teaching as an art based technology instructor. I have  BA  Degrees in Digital Media Arts /  Digital Media Communications & have worked as professional Graphic Artist / Photographer for 20 years. 

I am offering this class as a unique offering because suddenly I am finding myself teaching ALL my Digital Arts classes online.. I have 3 elementary aged children and have been putting them in all sorts of cool classes, when it occurred to me that I could share my illustration course to lots of artist who are jr.high & highschool age kids & teens who may also be currently affected by the school shut - down.